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| We’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of it is just plain wrong |
| 2021-08-28 |
Key paragraphs: [NYPost] Did Ariely ...Professor Dan Ariely, “superstar honesty researcher”... commit fraud — he says no — or was the data set he got from an insurance company faked for some reason? People are looking into that, but in a way the problem is bigger. Whether or not it was Ariely’s fault, a study that influenced policy turns out to have been baseless. And scientific peer review, often defended as the gold standard for research, didn’t spot the problem.But lots of stuff gets past peer review. Back in 2018, several hoaxers slipped works dubious on their face past peer review and into publication. One study, which made it into the journal Sex Roles, employed "thematic analysis of table dialogue" to determine why heterosexual men go to Hooters, a question that would seem to answer itself. Another looked at "Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon." And a third just scattered some modern buzzwords into translated passages from Mein Kampf and was published under the title "Our Struggle Is My Struggle" in a journal of feminist social work. Meanwhile, ...back at the railroad tracks, Little Nell tried to kick her bound feet and scream post the snotty handkerchief Scarface Al had stuff into her mouth... leading names in the field of social psychology turn out to have committed research fraud to an extent that it tainted the entire field. And as The Wall Street Journal reported, "One noted biostatistician has suggested that as many as half of all published findings in biomedicine are false." Research on "implicit bias" drives all sorts of campus and government policies on race and diversity, but the Implicit Association Test underlying it turns out to be highly dubious. In 2012, the firm Amgen set out to reproduce the results in 53 "landmark" studies in hematology and oncology. Only six of them replicated. Indeed the term "replication crisis" is now often used to refer to a situation in which so many major and influential studies don’t produce the same results — or any results — when other researchers set out to test them. And it really is a crisis. At one level, the problem is that billions in research money is wasted. But really, the problem is worse: Bad research guides behavior — whether it’s government policy or drug-development budgets or energy research — in the wrong direction. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Agreed Silentbrick. We are hectored incessantly by "Science whacks" that humans are the main cause of "Climate Change (nee "global warming") with garboons of $Fed spent promoting the bovine excrement. Yet, per FAA AC 00-68, a publication for those of a mature mental persuasion, "The sun is the dominant source of the conditions commonly described as space weather. The term space weather is used to designate processes occurring on the sun and in Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere, and thermosphere, which have the potential to affect the near-Earth environment. Emissions from the sun are both continuous (e.g., solar luminescence and solar wind) and eruptive (e.g., coronal mass ejections (CME) and flares). These solar eruptions may cause radio blackouts, magnetic storms, ionospheric storms, and radiation storms at Earth." [Sec. 23.1]. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2021-08-28 21:09 |
| #4 Follow the science....your genes say man or woman. (Yes, I'm aware of tiny percentage of actual genetic disorders and they don't count as normal). Follow the science....CO2 is plant food and we are STILL technically in CO2 starvation so far as the biosphere is concerned. Follow the science - THE SUN DRIVES Climate. So until these wackjobs can explain why in the 90's Mars got warmer, I'm following the science. I'm not sure the word science means what they think it means. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2021-08-28 20:45 |
| #3 I'm beginning to believe that contemporary science is the chimera offspring resulting from the (once thought impossible) successful mating of Marketing with Math. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2021-08-28 19:17 |
| #2 real consequences like losing tenure, being fired, blacklisting; may begin to solve this problem. but instead, it is business as usual. and by business i do mean business. Michael Mann is still at Penn State. |
| Posted by: Retard Strength 2021-08-28 11:12 |
| #1 Follow the science. Exactly how many viruses has science eliminated? |
| Posted by: Xyz 2021-08-28 10:38 |