In the Guardian, of all places;
The Bohannon hoax and LaCour/Green retraction have a lot in common. Scientific research was manufactured, which resulted in claims that appealed to some popular views, and the media broadly and uncritically promoted the results, advocating popular actions in response.
These two episodes highlight a more general problem: a lot of nonsense is published in the name of science. Writing in The Lancet last month, editor Richard Horton argued that as much as half of all scientific papers may simply be “untrue.” He writes: “The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world.” The media, journal editors and universities also share blame, he wrote.
The hoax and retraction should help us to understand that a big part of the problem that Horton laments has little to do with research misconduct or fraud, though that is a problem too, but rather science working exactly as it should.
Captain you are part of the problem buddy.
MGTOW, i hate humans, i hate kids, i aint having kids, blah blah blah.
Shut your pie hole and find a good woman instead of demonizing everysingle female out there. look for a prepper type of independant women who has a DECENT career and is not afraid to stay home and raise kids and submit to her husband the authority to provide in turn she has a few bambinos for you and keeps the house clean and supper ready.
I understand just how messed up city girls are so look to the country, look around you look at the things you like to do.
But all i see is you rambling on about MGTOW MGTOW MGTOW MGTOW , You advocate breeding but out of the other side of your mouth you say i hate humans i hate kids i hate women, im not having kids this world is messed up …..at least you recognize the consequences of your actions.
if you dont want kids ok, but i think you owe your country man that.I think we have an obligation to ourselves and our country man. Anyway i dont think everyone is made for having kids, but you add that to abortion,and ppl like yourself and you get a population is total freefall well the white population is globally and has been a minority population for a few centuries.
We need people like you to not only have kids but start having alot of kids. You are smart , conservative, decent looking. Smart people are so smart they forget to have kids we need smart kids from smart parents. All you see is black men like bb king and majic johnson breeding with 10-20 different women who are left to raise fatherless kids then when he dies they fight over his money…is that a societal benifit? No people like you are so grow a pair be a man and find a sweet heart get married and have 4 kids be a good father teach em economics and how to dance 😉
“In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world…”
In other words, scientists are just like the rest of us after all.
Gotta get that funding !!!
Eisenhower warned about the scientific-technological elite as much as the military-industrial complex. He was pretty astute.
Doesn’t The Guardian have a new boss or something?
I see just recently some green nuts were protesting Govenor Walker of Wisconson they came ina floating iceberg boat dressed as moose the dumb thing went and capsized on them getting the little hinies all wet i tell you enviroemntlims a mental disorder cuased by watching AVAVTAR 10 times a day eating nuts and berries and reading Al Gores books and watching A INCONVENT TRUTH 12 times a week
But Mann-made Global Warming Climate Change is totes true, people!
The back story of how the retraction by Green (note: NOT by LeCour) came about is pretty interesting (link below). The FRAUDULENT “study” findings (actually, no study was done at all) were revealed by a young gay graduate student who questioned the data and hence the results. The irony for me is that a false, gay promoting study was called out by a gay man. And not only that, but he did it in the face of academic peer pressure to do nothing. This gives me a modicum of hope for the integrity of academia as well as a better impression of gay men then the fake study.
http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2015/05/how-a-grad-student-uncovered-a-huge-fraud.html
nature takes over when it comes to having children. when times are tough and it might seem that the current generation might not survive, birth rates go up. fat happy wealthy people have fewer kids. it is the way of nature and you do not need a vast scientific study to prove that.
Some more recent examples
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/30/chocolate-covered-science-the-terrible-state-of-scientific-publishing/
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/06/03/yet-more-sting-on-scientific-publishing/
From what I’ve come to understand, in the world of humans, lots o’ da’ money and position always trump truth and honesty.
It doesn’t matter if it’s science, politics, government, or academia. One would like to think that at least scientists are objective. Well, sadly, no. The only reason they’re doing what they’re doing is wanting to find out “What’s in it for me?”
“The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil.”
Greenpeace so full of Hot Air enviromentalists are deraged green psycopaths
How ironic for Richard Horton to write about manufactured, political “research”, since he has a long history of printing just that in Lancet:
–The newest update to a study published in the British medical journal, the Lancet, claims that 655,000 Iraqis have been killed since the U.S. invaded Iraq. This absurd claim has been hailed around the world as evidence of the evil American empire’s murderous reign in the Mid East. But it turns out that the entire study is not only filled with lies, the creators of the study even tried to hide the fact that George Soros funded the thing.
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But the editor of the Lancet, physician Richard Horton, has unapologetically used the journal for advocacy on other issues, including a notorious 1998 paper that created an international panic over the safety of the childhood vaccine for measles, mumps, and rubella [the MMR] – linking it to autism and bowel disease.
And…
Horton spoke at a rally in 2006 sponsored by Stop the War Coalition, a British group set up on September 21, 2001, which is to say its purpose was to oppose punishing and defeating the perpetrators of the 9/11 attack. At the rally, Horton shouted about the “mountain of violence and torture” in Iraq – and no, he wasn’t talking about Saddam. “This axis of Anglo-American imperialism extends its influence through war and conflict, gathering power and wealth as it goes, so millions of people are left to die in poverty and disease,” he angrily added. Watch the histrionics on YouTube. This is not your father’s medical journal editor.–
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2008/02/09/us-has-killed-655-000-iraqis-soros-funded-lancet-study-debunked
First of all, there is only a requirement on science to be objective…no such requirement exists for scientists. The process of rebuttal takes care of that, and so long as ideas like “settled science” are rejected, science will be just fine.
Otherwise…regarding The Grauniad running this piece…sure, somewhat surprising. But the author is Pielke Jr., so not your typical dyed in the wool enviro activist mouthpiece. I disagree with him on some things, but he is not a shrill propaganda zombie by any definition. To me, he is at least on the side of science, which at this time in history can use all such voices it can get.