There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit: Despite recent scandals of research misconduct and error, the academic world still seems determined to look the other way

The Guardian ^ | 08/10/2023 | Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus

[SeekAndFind]

The governments of some countries have even offered cash bonuses for publishing in certain journals. Any surprise, then, that some scientists cheat?

[IDFbunny]

I thought they were coming clean on the Great Climate Swindle.

[SeekAndFind]

And these are not merely academic matters. Particularly when it comes to medical research, fakery hurts real people. Take the example of Joachim Boldt – the German anesthesiologist who, with 186 retractions, now sits atop the Retraction Watch leader board of scientists with the most pulled papers.

A specialist in critical care medicine, Boldt studied a blood substitute that was used in hospitals across Europe. His results, which were published between around 1990 and 2009 and widely cited, suggested that the product – used to help keep blood pressure and the delivery of oxygen to cells adequate – was saving lives.

After his fraud came to light and researchers reanalyzed all of the available data while leaving Boldt’s results out, it turned out the opposite was true: the substitute was “associated with a significant increased risk of mortality and acute kidney injury”.

[Leaning Right]

Old way: Collect evidence, then draw a conclusion from that evidence.
New way: Draw a conclusion, then collect evidence to support that conclusion.

And so science advances…in the wrong direction.

[neverevergiveup]

This. Without any question.

[Gene Eric]

“Heck, they all do it — it’s to be expected — at least the COVID research got it right”

[Paladin2]

Trust the Climate Emergency.

[ArcadeQuarters]

Trust science, not scientists.

[Telepathic Intruder]

How else are you going to prove your perpetual motion machine works without a little honest cheating? It’s for the greater good.

[MAGAthon]

not likely:

9 Aug: NY Post: Scientist admits the ‘overwhelming consensus’ on the climate change crisis is ‘manufactured’
By John Stossel
“It’s a manufactured consensus,” climate scientist Judith Curry tells me.

She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.”

She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change...
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured/

[MAGAthon]

Sharri Markson responds to Australian MSM trying to give cover to Fauci. brilliant:

VIDEO: 14m09s: 10 Aug: Sky News Australia: Anthony Fauci’s statements not ‘standing up to scrutiny’
Sky News host Sharri Markson reports.
Dr Anthony Fauci’s statements are once again not “standing up to scrutiny” as the former US chief medical advisor hit back at claims he covered up the origins of the virus to protect his own reputation.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/sharri-markson/anthony-faucis-statements-not-standing-up-to-scrutiny/video/b4326209da6c8ecdff41e5cb005d8d85

BBC has also been featuring Fauci and mentioned this week that he would be included in some new program on BBC World Service, “Titans of Science”. can’t find an online reference to it as yet.

[jurroppi1]

Too true. I see it nearly every day and it just baffles me that people take it on faith that so called experts have a clue what they are extolling.

[neverevergiveup]

Universities have become, in large measure, clown palaces.

[aquila48]

WOW! Not even the Guardian trusts the science anymore.

[aquila48]

All science today is Political Science.

[sauropod]

bkmk.

[cuz1961]

Academia has become,

and been for decades,

nothing more than a

Re(Pro)gressive
Secular humanist
Gnostic fraud
Godless satanic cult.

Where critical thinking and true learning goes to be beaten to death.
.

[cuz1961]

If there is no

Absolute Truth

but only relative ‘ truth’

as ‘ modernist ‘ academia claims

then there is no point to have academia

Academia is a present oxymoron that the ‘ expert’ morons refuse to acknowledge.

[IamConservative]

What we see in science is the manifestation of the corrupt influence of the US Government. Dems want to throw millions around for Climate Change reports proving them right, there will be plenty of takers.

The fallacy that reducing dietary cholesterol intake will reduce cholesterol in your blood has persisted for decades.

The FDA food pyramid is prescription for obesity.

One could go on for days.

[Tell It Right]

“Trust the science” is really trust the grift.