Scientific American dismisses Scientific Rigor

Trust the science… unless it goes against one of the tenets of our woke religion.

So she wants the standards changed, because they disprove what she believes. How in the hell does that bitch make it through a normal day?

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This will help us make better more informed decisions! /sarc

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I’ve said it before: these people have killed off the traditional American trust of expertise.

I hate masks and I know they don’t work. That being said, I always assumed conservatives would be more apathetic about them because of the privacy they afford to the wearer.

BTW, if you aren’t reading City Journal every month, you are doing it wrong.

The US is a corpse in the dark ages.

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Naomi Oreskes, a Harvard professor

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In all seriousness, it's time to close this place and ignore everyone with a Harvard degree.

This piece reminds me of something that was published in Science, almost a decade ago. Authors from MIT and at least one Ivy got data from NIH that no one else was able to get, then conducted this analysis that was deliberately set up to demonstrate how much "value" the "elite" institutions add to science. It was a stepwise regression, which can be heavily biased depending on how you load the variables, and it just so happened that the loading was done in such a way that it produced numbers that supported their argument. What a shocking surprise!

This was essentially a response to the accusations that the game is rigged - which it is. The big name schools have people that are connected to gov, and thus all the major sponsors of research. They know what grant announcements are coming, often times write them themselves; they are on review panels; they are on editorial boards...and as expected they get all the funding, get published more than others etc. Everyone in research knows it's rigged, so these people set out to try and convince people that it isn't rigged. The work was not well done, and it was very shady to have data that no one else could access. And it wasn't a coincidence that it got published in the #1 journal (allegedly) in the world.

I don't know if people understand how bad science is in the US. There are some brilliant people in it, but there's a lot of corruption as well, and a tremendous amount of waste.

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