Posted on 05/31/2015 10:26:46 AM PDT by DeweyCA
The exposure of one of the biggest scientific frauds in recent memory...
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Over and over again, throughout the scientific community and the media, LaCour’s impossible-seeming results were treated as truth, in part because of the weight Green’s name carried, and in part, frankly, because people — researchers, journalists, activists —wanted to believe them.
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...Broockman was consistently told by friends and advisers to keep quiet about his concerns lest he earn a reputation as a troublemaker, or — perhaps worse — someone who merely replicates and investigates others’ research rather than plant a flag of his own.
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This might seem like a strange, mafia-ish argument to a non-academic, but within the small world of political science — particularly within the world of younger, less job-secure political scientists — it makes sense for at least two reasons. The first is that the moment your name is associated with the questioning of someone else’s work, you could be in trouble. If the target is someone above you, like Green, you’re seen as envious, as shamelessly trying to take down a big name. If the target is someone at your level, you’re throwing elbows in an unseemly manner. In either case, you may end up having one of your papers reviewed by the target of your inquiries (or one of their friends) at some point — in theory, peer reviewers are “blinded” to the identity of the author or authors of a paper they’re reviewing, but between earlier versions of papers floating around the internet and the fact that everyone knows what everyone else is working on, the reality is quite different. Moreover, the very few plum jobs and big grants don’t go to people who investigate other researchers’ work — they go to those who stake out their own research areas.
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Moreover, the very few plum jobs and big grants don’t go to people who investigate other researchers’ work — they go to those who stake out their own research areas.
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The big money goes to those who get the results that our corrupt government wants.
“what the “FRAUD” is!”
A political scientist academic falsified data about how much opinions could be changed about gay marriage.
He claimed that he had a study where people were surveyed before being contacted in person, then had someone knock on their door to talk to them about gay marriage (identifying themselves as homosexual), and then surveyed them again later. The claim was that such face to face contacts made an unusually effective and lasting change in people’s opinions, in favor of gay marriage.
Bottom line: It would have cost more than a million dollars to conduct the study as claimed - he just made it up.
Liberals wanted to believe.
Like one President of recent memory was quoted as saying, “It isn’t so much that liberals are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.”
And this is another of those thing that liberals “just know”. Not much of anything is going to shake that mindset.
clearly scientific publishing is just an extension of all the other information exchange in this "free press society." Were that not so, Jim's idea for Free Republic would have gone nowhere. As it is, it's losing ground.
Raj: Okay, here’s the deal, six months ago, my research testing the predicted composition of trans-Neptunian objects ran into a dead end.
Howard: So?
Raj: So, my visa’s only good as long as I’m employed at the university, and when they find out I’ve got squat, they’re going to cut me off. By the way, when I say squat, I mean diddly-squat. I wish I had squat.
Leonard: So, wait, what have you been doing for the past six months?
Raj: You know, checking e-mail, updating my facebook status, messing up wikipedia entries. Hey, did you know Netflix lets you stream movies on your computer now?
Sheldon: And you’ve continued to take the university’s money under false pretences? Highly unethical for an astrophysicist. Although practically mandatory for a pirate.
Raj: I don’t want to go back to India. It’s hot and loud, and there’s so many people. You have no idea, they’re everywhere.
Howard: Okay, guys, think, how do we keep Raj in the country?
Penny (from outside): Why doesn’t he just get another job?
Howard (after Raj whispers to him): What are you asking me for? I don’t know if you can talk now or not.
I think this was lifted and distilled from Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis.
However, with Muchelle's thesis, the reality of Ferguson and Baltimore sort of whack you out of the academic exercise.
Professor Laughlin’s office.
Prof Laughlin: Dr. Koothrappali, come on in. I was surprised to hear you were interested In joining our little team. Giving up on those trans-Neptunian objects, are we?
Raj: No, no, it’s a very promising area. In a perfect world I’d spend several more years on it. But I just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to work with you on your tremendously exciting and not yet conclusively disproved hypothesis.
The global warming fraud is “outted” almost daily but it doesn’t matter. The fraud is covered up by the media, educational and political establishments so that it doesn’t even matter that the lies have been proven to be lies. To the world at large they are the Truth and if you question the Truth you are a Denier.
It can be a challenge to find the original from which other citations have been derived. -—
You mean the Google is not Omnipotent?
#3 You should apply for a grant to study the fraud that goes on at universities then another grant for the fraud that goes on in government. : )
Naturally you would make the end result up while skimming the grant money into your bank account and also buying a new iPad.
I thought a new obscenity had been invented.
Academic arguments are so savage because the results are so small.
The big money goes who can turn a government research grant into a class action lawsuit. You want to see a real conspiracy? Don’t look at ideologues. Look at ambulance chasers.
Anyone with a lay appreciation of modern physics will find this "paper" hilarious.
You are right. The longest most scientific study ever was done in Europe by the WHO of the U.N. But since the conclusions were not what the rabid, uninformed, ignorant fanatic anti-smokers expected, it was quietly shelved and never heard of again.
I'm not lazy, but at the moment I am rather busy and rushed, but I will find the complete copy of the study I saved and post it on FR.
Fraud is fraud, and the ultimate perfection of it is the now historic "If you like your health care you can KEEP your health care... if you like your doctor, you can..."
Peer Reviewed!!!
On Page 54 there appears a half page article titled, “Face-to-face dialogues seen as key to breaking down bigotry.” The article includes the following quote from Columbia political scientist Donald P. Green:
“This wasn't the type of quick hit conversation typical of political canvassing, but a genuine dialogue, says Green who was recently named an inaugural recipient of an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship for innovative research in the social sciences and humanities.”
I suspect that Andrew Carnegie is rolling over in his grave, and I wonder just how long Columbia University administrators will take to recind that fellowship award. Maybe the university should request Green's resignation as well but I will not hold my breath for that to happen.
You said, “I’m happy to see these guys exposed.”
I’m not sure why seeing a gay man expose himself would make you happy!!! Humor intended.
Another problem with the “Global warming causes _________” research is it piles a fraudulent consequence on top of a fraudulent assumption that there is global warming.
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