Ah yes, theallracesdoitt move.
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Posted on 01/22/2024 6:35:54 PM PST by george76
A Harvard University-affiliated teaching hospital is seeking to retract or correct dozens of papers authored by four of its top researchers — including the hospital’s CEO — following a probe into allegations of data falsification.
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston has already initiated six retractions to papers and 31 others are in the process of being corrected, the hospital’s research integrity officer, Dr. Barrett Rollins, confirmed to the Harvard Crimson.
The corrections follow claims of data falsification leveled against the cancer institute’s CEO, Dr. Laurie Glimcher, chief operating officer Dr. William Hahn, director of the Clinical Investigator Research Program Dr. Irene Ghobrial and Jerome Lipper Multiple Myeloma Center program director Dr. Kenneth Anderson.
The latest accusations come just weeks after Harvard University president Claudine Gay resigned from her top post after she was embroiled in her own plagiarism scandal.
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All four of the Dana-Farber researchers have faculty appointments with the Harvard Medical School.
News of the probe surfaced after a data sleuth, Sholto David, published a blog post earlier this month alleging irregularities in a total of 57 papers.
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The Post also reached out to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
The fresh allegations are just the latest tranche of claims leveled against Harvard-affiliated researchers after the Ivy League school’s president stepped down from her prestigious post following weeks of controversy over her own academic record.
Gay’s academic career came under intense scrutiny after she was hit with nearly 50 accusations of plagiarism
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
they’re all getting a little scared of ackman I think ... having trouble sleeping at night ...
But it sez rite heer in dis spreadsheet!
Heart Surgeon #1: Uh, you take over now that this guy i opened up, Alan. I paid for my college papers, had a pal sit it on classes half the time and I plagiarized most of my medical exam essays.
Heart Surgeon #2: Same here. I was depending on you. Can any of the nurses and tech aides do this procedure if we take off for a coffee break now?
“They’re all getting a little scared of ackman I think ... having trouble sleeping at night ...”
For those that don’t know, billionaire Bill Ackman called for Gay to resign. Instead Harvard protected Gay and instead went after his wife.
Ackman said that was a mistake, and then he hired a team of people to review what’s being published by Harvard.
Harvard’s IDIOCY (after all Gay resigned anyway) may go down as the DUMBEST move by Academe, and that is saying a lot. That move may well result in many (perhaps) most of their DEI losing their jobs.
“Wait a minute - you mean men can’t get pregnant after all? I blame peer review...”
correct ... Ackman is a billionaire and is funding an AI startup to uncover plagiarism and other falsifications in academia ... beginning with Harvard and continuing on from there. He plans to take down the propeller heads that have ruined our education system and thus our nation.
tonight they get the dry probe...
just wait until someone FINALLY starts looking into the data these “environmental scientists” have been fabricating!
“they’re all getting a little scared of ackman I think ... having trouble sleeping at night ...”
Ackman is pissed, and has money, time, and resources for retribution. In addition, he has identified as one of them for years so knows many of their methods and secrets. If they hadn’t come after his wife he probably would have let this pass. To him, it is now personal. The entire saga has begun “red-pilling” him bit by bit. I noticed he and Musk are communicating quite a bit. They may have made a serious mistake.
Harvard. America’s best and brightest.
I came across this commentary on peer review on Jerry Pournelle’s web site. I think you might like it.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/mail/2008/Q1/mail506.html#peer
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Fred on Peer Review:
1) Peer review works, it seems to me, if you believe that people credentialed as scholars are not subject to political correctness, fear of their peers, concerns about tenure, and the heavy pressure to stay within the accepted paradigm. Is this the case?
2) Who would write the more insightful and accurate paper on race in America—Jared Taylor (who I believe not to have any sort of high academic credentials), or the head of the sociology department at the U. of Maryland? Whose paper would be more likely to pass peer review?
3) If I stole a prepublication copy of a high-grade-paper from a major figure in one of the semi- or pseudo-sciences—psychology, sociology, anthropology—and submitted it under my name, as plain Fred Reed, would it pass peer review? If not, then the function of peer review as an assurance of quality would seem dubious. Indeed, I would have to conclude that the journal didn’t even recognize quality in its own field, and that peer review was chiefly a form of exclusionary unionism.
4) I may be wrong, but I have the impression that people who pass peer review, such as Jay Gould (was he peer-reviewed?) have been regarded by the list as incompetent if not dishonest.
5) I believe I have read that someone wrote a deliberately nonsensical paper in sociology or some such, and this parody was duly published in a respected journal. I don’t know whether it was peer-reviewed.
Maybe journals ought to reserve a slot per issue for things interesting but unconventional, and let the reader decide.
Fred Reed
This came up in another conversation, and I got Fred’s permission to post it. See also my essay on The Voodoo Sciences.
Click the link to get a link to Pournelle’s essay on Voodoo Science. It is well worth reading. We need a lot fewer of them.
I’m reminded of two “veterans” running a Vietnam War Museum. Both were fakes, who had not served in Vietnam, but thought the other guy was legit, and they spent years BSing each other. Is everyone in academia in on the joke, or do all of these fraudsters think all the other published papers are legitimate, and that they alone are running a scam?
Sadly, that is true. The elite schools are just selling cache...we’ll pass you all cause if we don’t we don’t get tuition money. And we don’t get federal money for our teachers. So passing students guarantees a professors salary.
What a dead group of losers. I will never hire any elite school grad unless I know their work history.
https://www.jerrypournelle.com/reports/jerryp/iron.html
Harvard - where kids learn how to cheat....
Ah yes, theallracesdoitt move.
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“The elite schools are just selling cache...”
In 30 years of working in an industrial research lab I interviewed dozens of candidates from “Ivy League” schools. I found very few of them that did exemplary work. Most of them were average at best and seemed to think they could get by on where they worked. That may fly in academia, but not in the real world.
I really enjoyed Jerry’s columns and books.
I was most honored to get back an email from him, before he passed away.
He posted one of my comments on his blog once, I felt the same.
I read darn near everything he ever wrote, the Strategy of Technology, the Byte magazine columns, all the science fiction, alone and with Niven (and Barnes, etc.), and of course the blog. I was a huge fan from way back.
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