The corruption of the bond rating agencies was one factor that led to the financial meltdown of 2008.
“ Are all institutions in America corrupt?”
Yes, but this is international.
Ninety Five percent of all “studys” are nothing more than a request to the government for more grant money.
Since Charles Lyell.
Researchers are in the business of securing government grants. Any actual science that happens is purely incidental.
"...a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.
Source: https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
This is a worldwide problem.
It takes time and careful, not very interesting work to make a scientific discovery that is actually solid. But out of sight out of mind and once you are out of mind you get no funding so you might as well be dead.
So you fudge things, maybe just a bit, maybe a lot. This keeps the money flowing and everyone is happy. Unless you are in a hard science where your data may be used to build something that then falls down and kills people.
But in the soft sciences you can push malarkey until the cows come home and mostly no one will notice.
In a bit of research for the sensationalism they had for their view, I ran across 2 sites that stated clearly that this deep ground water HELPS create Magma... Now the ONLY way ANTHING can help create molten rock, is if that substance/whatever is HOTTER than the magma thats present. and knowing enough about super heated steam from water, I deducted BULLS**T across the board!!!!
The same applies for the fake pictures on APOD, the fake Pictures photoshopped, all these sites using sensationalism and grandure are absolutely no different than CNN reporting the news!! js...
Exactly... Just check out all the phony ‘climate change’ papers.
As are fake scientific conclusions!
The majority of these “studies” are fake. Scientist trying to replicate them cannot and those that they can replicate for the most part do not achieve the same results.
Stop giving grants for fake research. Grants tells the scientists what their research has to say so they can receive more grants.
Just wait until the AIs get started.
So the “science” isn’t settled?
A good measure of scientific truth is its infrequency.
If it is Covid related it is probably higher than 85% fake.
Forty-five years ago, a Nobel Prize winner told us that only 50% of papers were true, and half of the rest had flaws in methodology, statistical analysis, and conclusions.
Review by colleagues is gone along with the first amendment. Getting any dissenting truths out meets dissent itself.
Recall when The Lancet and The Imperial College of London both published the expected Covid deaths early into the ‘pandemic’. The sensationalized and exaggerated numbers in those papers lead to inappropriate policies, not just in the US, but across the globe.
I remember Allan Sokol’s papers. Classic.
Centralized planning always runs into problems whether its running an economy or doling out research grants.