Swift Boats Of Science

The Nation ^ | August 4, 2005 | Ari Berman

[Pietro]

"It's as if the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth discovered science."

That's a loaded statement.

[libstripper]

By equating Cameron and his people with the Swiftvets this article inadvertently shows Cameron and his people are the ones teelling the truth and the deep corruption of the other groups.

[hinckley buzzard]

Mr. Berman, your proof please that this research is not statistically accurate?

Mr. Berman lacks the qulaifications to distinguish statistically valid data from cooked numbers. That's why he can't go into any detail about anything.

Speaking of Berman's incompetence and lack of ethics, he incidentally lied about "Psychology Reports." It is not "an obscure journal from Montana," it is a well-known and log-running journal usually publishing preliminary or short reports on psychological research. It is considered a minor journal because it is a "pay" journal, meaning the author has to pay a certain amount per page to have his work published. The implication, sometimes true and sometimes not, is that the article may not have been of acceptible quality for a free, APA journal.

However, given the Lysenkoization of the field of psychology, pay journals may be the only venue in which controversial or politically incorrect research is not censored from publication, regardless of the quality of the work.