Gee, that's easy.
M, O, N, E, Y.
Posted on 05/24/2015 5:14:05 PM PDT by DeweyCA
In December, Science published a paper claiming that people could change their minds about same-sex marriage after talking for just 20 minutes with a gay person. It seemed too good to be true — and it was.
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Most science and health reporters rely on the top journals for news leads. They tend to move in a pack, descending on a small handful of news items each week. When the papers in those journals have the fillip of a hot topic, like sex or race, the frenzy is even greater. And yet many reporters fail to do the necessary due diligence before publishing their work. The drive for scoops is even greater in journalism than it is in science.
Economists like to say there are no bad people, just bad incentives. The incentives to publish today are corrupting the scientific literature and the media that covers it. Until those incentives change, we’ll all get fooled again.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Popular Psychology is not Science.
Really? Fudge included in analysis of this paper again? Eeewwww.
M, O, N, E, Y.
Not a mention of Global Warming / Climate Change / Climate disruption in this article.
Gee, that's easy.
M, O, N, E, Y.
The Weekly Standard also had a column on this incident and the perils of fraud in the social sciences at http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/big-phony-data_952627.html?nopager=1
Conquest
MONEY! Duh!
How come the NYT doesn’t mention the biggest scientific fraud of all — man-made global warming?
That's like saying that there is peril of fraud in fraudulent activity.
Do Socialists lie?
Duh!!!
Isn’t that interesting? Not.
Interesting that it was published just before the Irish gay marriage vote.
Also interesting that it was denounced as ‘bad science’ when it was blatant gay propaganda.
Has the New York Slimes ever said anything critical of gays? Just curious...
yeah but M, O, N, E, Y. is just a means to POWER.
You hear over & over about Ike’s warning of the “Military Industrial Complex” in his farewell speech. What is less remembered is that he also warned of the government / big science complex stifling true science. And, boy was he right!
Government funding of research is like high school. Only the cool kids are allowed. We were a lot better off when people like David Packard were literally changing the world from their garage.
The biggest frauds involve GovernMental EnvironMental Scientits who want to be both the sucker and the sucker!!! (refering to the GovernMental tits of jobs with fat pensions, grants of public funds supplies by professional “Grant Writers” galore!!!)
The desire for money and power is at the root of it.
My impression is that there are many that are...but then they are not the one's getting popular attention. There are charlatan science popularizes and activists who love attention more than the hard trench work of honest research...just as there are charlatan mega-preachers who love attention more than the hard work of really connecting and giving of themselves to others.
Money. Power.
Nothing new.
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