The more I learn, the more I am convinced that 9 out of 10 “experts” are just making shit up.
The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology aims to replicate 50 top cancer papers. The complete results are not yet in, in fact, the corresponding authors of most of the articles to be wholly or partially replicated have only been contacted for details and clarifications concerning the protocols of their experiments. The Reproducibility Project will only publish the final results of the 50 replications by the end of 2017!
Previous attempts at replicating cancer biology experiments indicated that reproducibility ranges from a dismal 10% to the very disappointing rate of 25%. These results mean that at least 75% of the money spend on cancer biology produces press releases rather than bona fide useful results.
Be that as it may, the people whose articles and experiments have been chosen for replication are up in arms. In an article in Science, their reactions are described as ranging “from annoyance to anxiety to outrage.”
Via James C. Coyne.
You know you are going to fed a banquet of BS if you read or
hear “Studies show that…..”
To show just how stupid some of this crap is, I was on my
way to work more than 20 years ago. To show you just how
memorable this was, I was transitioning from the northbound
Harbor Freeway to the eastbound Artesia Freeway. Some AM
talk show host played an audio clip from some woman with a
degree in Cultural Anthropology or some such
This Alberta Einstein stated that the reason humans fear
reptiles is because of our negative “Experiences” with
dinosaurs. Let that sink in!
Today, science is so polluted by politics, that I would have
to check the toilet bowl if anyone with a college degree told
me the color of crap was brown! If science had not been so
thoroughly corrupted, we would still have DDT, PCB’s, CFC’s,
Asbestos, a whole host of chemical solvents, and that
bitchin’ butter substitute they used to use on popcorn
at the movie theaters!
I am surprised that the numbers are not even worse than this
story suggests.
Alchemy is only for the elite.
That is a cbcpravda special headline
Studies show
Critics say
Harper regime
Harper blasted
Omar released!!
turning studies to cure cancer into big business took a lot of effort.
2017?
Why the big rush?
Heh.
Follow the money.
It is increasingly obvious that damping the free enterprise that produces the wealth is directly proportional to the scamming “scientists” blaming the same for all the ills of the world.
Of course with the deceitful support of the media cartel
When something is being sold on the basis of “expert” “consensus” you can be sure there is no consensus and the source is far from expert. We have been scammed for decades with “expert opinion” – it gave us safe substances like thalidomide, hydrogenated oils, asbestos insulation, Vioxx, fluoride, aspartame and trans-fats.
Expert consensus also told us Butter, eggs, salt and raw cane sugar were sudden death dietary poisns and have recently found them to be miracle natural foods.
Expert consensus told us the polar ice would be in our living rooms by now if we weren’t all dead by radiation coming though the ozone hole or freezing from the peak oil shortage.
That’s why I wouldn’t touch the Cancer Society or any of its many competitors — Breast, Prostate, Ovarian…. — with a ten-foot pole. My charitable efforts go to Sleeping Children Around the World: no overhead, small, measurable goals.
“An ‘expert’ is just some guy from out of town.”
I remember seeing this years ago:
What is an expert?
X = unknown quantity;
spurt = drip under pressure;
“X spurt”
The somatic mutation model of cancer as a genetic disease is on its last legs. The tumor genome project has discovered that tumours have thousands of genetic mutations within a single tumour and different mutations in different cells, essentially disproving somatic mutation as the driver in a single germ line of the cancer. Little wonder results are hardly reproducible, since the underlying paradigm is flawed. Nuclear DNA mutations are apparently downstream effects of metabolic impairment due to weakened mitochondria.
Studies designed to take into the account of the possibility of cancer as a metabolic disease have been reproducible, since the focus is a unified driving cause and not the scatter-shot of genetic side effects. For example, here are two studies that were published in June 2015 from two different labs (one in Europe, one in America) that got essentially the same results, independently.
PLoS One. 2015 Jun 8;10(6):e0129802. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129802. eCollection 2015.
Inhibition of Neuroblastoma Tumor Growth by Ketogenic Diet and/or Calorie Restriction in a CD1-Nu Mouse Model.
Morscher RJ1, Aminzadeh-Gohari S2, Feichtinger RG2, Mayr JA3, Lang R4, Neureiter D5, Sperl W3, Kofler B2.
Poff AM, Ward N, Seyfried TN, Arnold P,D’Agostino DP (2015) Non-Toxic Metabolic Management of Metastatic Cancer in VM Mice: Novel
Combination of Ketogenic Diet, Ketone Supplementation, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy.
PLoS ONE 10(6): e0127407. doi:10.1371/journal.
pone.0127407
And then there’s consultants.