Posted on 03/23/2025 4:48:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
It was just revealed that the Biden administration intentionally buried an “inconvenient” study in order to justify an energy crackdown. Of course, we’re seldom shocked to hear that politics is, well, political. But what about when study authors themselves bury, or otherwise obscure, inconvenient data? This not only happens, says a Ph.D. scientist with more than 20 years experience, but is actually common in research. In fact, the picture painted by Dr. Lorene Leiter reveals, the mainstream science establishment is much like our mainstream media establishment: a realm where lies may reign supreme.
Explaining her background, Leiter states that she “earned a Ph.D. from Rutgers University and worked at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” She began her scientific career as a starry-eyed young idealist, too. Her romantic vision was one of toiling in a basement with Marie Curie-like figures pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. And Leiter did make a major discovery:
She learned that today, the “publish or perish” priority trumps all.
“No paper, no money for your lab. Period,” Leiter writes at American Thinker Wednesday. “And the motherlode [sic] for money is the NIH.”
Yes, that would be the National Institutes of Health — the entity the now notorious Dr. Anthony Fauci was part of.
Leiter states that our current system ensures scientific fraud. In fact, the incidents of cheating she observed are legion, she says. Know that she’s far from the first to make this observation, too, as I reported in 2014. (More on this later.)
A common cheating method, Leiter relates, is to, à la Joseph Stalin, “airbrush” “uncooperative” lab mice from an experiment. That is, let’s say that upon conducting research you find that your hypothesis isn’t borne out. But...
(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...
“So much for ‘peer review’ — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers”
Well, yes, and media and schools and government
It is my belief that “scientists” give their papers such complicated-sounding names that the people who review it are the scientific equivalent to the people in The Emperor’s New Clothes.
My great-uncle, now deceased, was renowned in his narrow engineering/mathematics world. He found it amusing that so many science experts were so willing to try to baffle outsiders and even each other with bullSchiff (and not in a humorous way).
RE: scientific community-——(reply) yes, and media and schools and government.
A bad one for me was the deliberate falsification of climate data to make the global warming (and then climate change) seem to be genuine. Data that didn’t fit the narrative was deleted or falsified under revisions.
It wasn’t man-made anyway. Unless the tiny amount of powered vehicles in the world in 1900 caused those record breaking floods and storms. Plus “forest fires.”
In the year 1900 there were an estimated 8,000 cars on the road in the world.
Climates change...that’s what they do.
And I didn’t sleep in a Holiday Inn Express.
When I see that a “scientist” is good because he was “peer reviewed” it just means his findings align with the agenda.
You still sound really smart, though.
I was a lab grunt back in the day. I saw the “tweaking” of the data from experiments and their results on a regular basis. If you spoke up, you were shunned and put down. There came a time when I had to choose, so I stopped. No more paycheck. I never went back. There were a lot of other more honorable things to do with my life.
Oh, this was in the mid-80’s. Fauci was still a new name, but I hated him even back then.
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The medical journals have published a lot of bogus research about firearms.
Another scam is to create your own journal, or take over an old one, then publish your own papers or in collusion with your like minded friends.
Much wildlife research is this way.
Dr. James Tour is like a swarm of hornets at an ice cream social, as he has debunked ALL origin of life from non-life theories. Other organic molecular chemists despise him for his honesty.
Publish(Lie) or (not get grants) parish.
I’m telling you all that the Earth is FLAT!
It is a scientific FACT!
I am sure you believe it.
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