Posted on 10/27/2013 5:57:00 PM PDT by Islander7
n today's world, brimful as it is with opinion and falsehoods masquerading as facts, you'd think the one place you can depend on for verifiable facts is science.
You'd be wrong. Many billions of dollars' worth of wrong.
A few years ago, scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen set out to double-check the results of 53 landmark papers in their fields of cancer research and blood biology.
The idea was to make sure that research on which Amgen was spending millions of development dollars still held up. They figured that a few of the studies would fail the test — that the original results couldn't be reproduced because the findings were especially novel or described fresh therapeutic approaches.
But what they found was startling: Of the 53 landmark papers, only six could be proved valid.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Ping list worthy, neverdem?
Way too many junk science frauds and not enough real scientists.
And I wonder how many of the failed studies authors were awarded Nobel prizes?
Technology advances.
Science ... a little less so.
Paul had it right: “...avoid profane and vain babblings and the oppositions of science falsely so called....” I Timothy 6:20
Its called keeping the grant money flowing.
There is a lot of fraud in science and in the pursuit of grants. I work part time in bio research labs and blood and blood products are our specialty. Even when you have a great new product getting it to market without the backing of the big pharm companies is almost impossible.
Securing more dollars and additional grants has become a cottage industry and most of it is based on pure fraud. Scientists are almost as good of liars as politicians and lawyers.
You mean the climatards?
This was a 2010 paper by then-NASA biochemist Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues claiming that they had found bacteria growing in Mono Lake that were uniquely able to subsist on arsenic and even used arsenic to build the backbone of their DNA.
I think I posted a thread here about it, way back. If anyone cares to find it, the title was, "Bug eats iron, loves acid, lives in California."
It would humor me to no end if someone found it . . . I looked and the only links I could find are dead.
Huh. So it’s important to be truthful and honest. Lives could be at stake. Let’s ask our former employee, William Jefferson Clinton, what he thinks about being honest. We didn’t fire an employee for lying under oath. What message did that send? There are two countries within our borders. There is The United States of America. There is also Democratland. We can’t have both.
Thanks. But I’m still looking for my FR thread, that appears to have vanished into the ether.
Okay, my bad. I’ll look for it.
Culture of Celebrity..
It’s an Obama kind of World.
bttt
The production of scientific knowledge is no different than many other activities, like manufacturing a part for an airplane. In manufacturing, the cost of being forced to do something over is much greater than doing it right the first time, or catching problems early. The scientific method is self correcting, but only “eventually.” We could do a lot better with process control and do things like require independent reproducibility before publication.
Perhaps Vince but human beings are being irreparably harmed by this insanity…
Lyme’s disease …anyone?
Bump
‘Whoever funds the research gets the results they want’-Originalbuckeye
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