Posted on 03/18/2021 9:34:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Camille Noûs first appeared on the research scene 1 year ago, as a signatory to an open letter protesting French science policy. Since then, Noûs has been an author on 180 journal papers, in fields as disparate as astrophysics, molecular biology, and ecology, and is racking up citations.
But Noûs is not a real person. The name—intentionally added to papers, sometimes without the knowledge of journal editors—is meant to personify collective efforts in science and to protest individualism, according to RogueESR, a French research advocacy group that dreamed up the character.
RogueESR had a subversive idea: What if they slipped a fictitious researcher in their author lists? “Hundreds of articles will make this name the top author on the planet,” they wrote in a newsletter, “with the consequence of distorting certain bibliometric statistics and demonstrating the absurdity of individual quantitative assessment.”
Some authors, like Lansberg, did not inform editors that Noûs is not a real person. A spokesperson for Scientific Reports told Science that “concerns have been raised” about authorship on a paper in the journal that lists Noûs, and the journal is investigating. And a paper in Physical Review B has published a correction stating that the inclusion of Noûs’s name was contrary to journal policy, and that it had been removed.
In one case, a group of mathematicians committed to the idea of Noûs chose to withdraw a paper from consideration at the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A after the editorial board decided Noûs could not be included. In another case, an editor at Solar Physics declined to allow the submission of Noûs papers, citing the authorship standards recommended by the Committee on Publication Ethics, which require every author to make substantial contributions to the work and to take responsibility for its contents.
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How can anyone be asked to “trust science” when the scientists themselves can not be trusted?
Nous is the third person pronoun in french meaning “us”
did I say third person?
Now now now, just listen to Nancy Pelosi. The science is settled, and you have to vote for it to see what’s In it 😆
“You are all individuals!”
(In unison) “Yes, we are all individuals!”
“You are all unique!”
(In unison) “Yes, we are all unique!”
“I’m not.”
“Sush!”
Oh, goody. Let's re-write all the intellectual property laws. Copyright? Camille Nous said I could print this. Disney movies? That was a collective effort and that corporation has no right to profit from it.
You want Collectivism? Let's have Collectivism.
You meant “he meant to say first person”
A singular use of language.
Oui.
An idea so stupid it could only be French.
Camille Ruse
.....Responsibility and accountability must accompany the credit that comes with authorship.... and in the case of “Noûs”, no one can take on those burdens.....
That says it all!!!!
Biden is living “La Vie en Ruse”
That sounds like a name used as cover for a large number of people. i.e. “Who is John Galt?” There IS no John Galt, except as a character in Ayn Rand’s famous book “Atlas Shrugged”. He (John Galt) is a symbol or archetype of an accepted theory.
Like Evgenyi Zamyatin's eerily prescient novel about the denial of individuality, "We."
Regards,
Bourbaki was a collective name of a group of mathematicians that published stuff in the mid-20th century. But they were not ‘woke’ mathematicians.
“Experts say”
“Scientists say”
Non! Look at our campuses before you say that.
If they were just a little bit clever they would have called her Nadie Nous. (Spanish+French, literally Nobody Us, or “we are nobody”). Camille is just too cisgender.
The French equivalent to Alan Smithee in movies.
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