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The Corruption of Scientific Journals Continues Apace
HotAir ^ | 7/19/25 | David Strom

Posted on 07/20/2025 1:51:42 PM PDT by CFW

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If you need a doctor, especially a specialist in a field, it would probably be best to find one that graduated from medical school prior to the year 2000 or so.
1 posted on 07/20/2025 1:51:42 PM PDT by CFW
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2 posted on 07/20/2025 1:52:25 PM PDT by CFW
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gonna have to change “trust the science” to “trust the corrupt and fraudulent science” ...


3 posted on 07/20/2025 1:53:10 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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I’m just casually stopping by to say that for many decades, some people have raised questions about Evolution. Some of us don’t consider it to be very good science. And for many decades, the official word is: “You cannot doubt it! This is science!! We know it’s true!!!”

I don’t have enough faith to believe these people when they talk about Evolution.


4 posted on 07/20/2025 1:59:31 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (When the night falls, it falls on me. And when the day breaks, I'm in pieces.)
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gonna have to change “trust the science” to “trust the corrupt and fraudulent science” ...

The older I get, the more I know what I don't know.

5 posted on 07/20/2025 2:02:44 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Last year Wiley had to retract 11,000 fraudulent “peer reviewed” papers and shut down 19 “scientific” journals.

https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/05/so-much-for-peer-review-wiley-shuts-down-19-science-journals-and-retracts-11000-fraudulent-or-gobblygook-papers/


6 posted on 07/20/2025 2:04:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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I think it takes more faith to believe in evolution than it does to believe an intelligent being created human life.

Given the nonsense we hear from “experts”, especially in the medical field these days, I trust very little of what they say.


7 posted on 07/20/2025 2:04:28 PM PDT by CFW
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AI has essentially killed any remaining trust in scientific journals.

8 posted on 07/20/2025 2:07:29 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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It’s “settled”, then?


9 posted on 07/20/2025 2:07:50 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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Well said. I could expostulate on the subject but I will will leave it with one simple question: why did evolution only happen once?


10 posted on 07/20/2025 2:08:10 PM PDT by Fungi
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I thought it was just me.


11 posted on 07/20/2025 2:08:29 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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I thought it was just me.


12 posted on 07/20/2025 2:08:57 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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When (1970s & 1980s) I sometimes reviewed articles for publication in Physical Review (A & B) and Physical Review Letters, I would have rejected at least 10-15 percent of the articles being published today...


13 posted on 07/20/2025 2:11:39 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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You are 100% correct about the journal “Nature,” but the list is long!

“Scientific America” went progressive and I canceled my subscription. Their articles of pure science are still good. If anything is even border line political they go left.

“National Geographic” went progressive many years past. They did an article on Global Warming that was scientific idiocy and the last insult to me. I cancelled my subscription.

“The Economist” once a publication of truth and incisive analysis of economics and politics, they were very good. They went progressive and I cancelled my subscription.

“New England Journal of Medicine” went left and I cancelled my subscription. The same can be said of Britain’s “Lancet.” I had no subscription to cancel.

ACADEMIA IS CORRUPT!


14 posted on 07/20/2025 2:22:44 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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I was a science & technology nerd since childhood. Use to subscribe to Scientific American. Cancelled my subscription decades ago when I became aware that it was publishing Political Science.


15 posted on 07/20/2025 2:24:46 PM PDT by sjmjax
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Evolution makes total sense to me and was explored well before the progressives got their hot little hands on science. I support those who come from a faith background that lets them not accept it, but expect the same tolerance for those of us who come with different backgrounds and opinions.


16 posted on 07/20/2025 2:26:41 PM PDT by mairdie
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Has science came to a conclusion about if eggs are good for you?

I don’t think so. So why about global warming?


17 posted on 07/20/2025 2:27:02 PM PDT by alternatives?
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AI has essentially killed any remaining trust in scientific journals

Imagine a "scientific" journal announcing new scientific "discoveries" from an AI. The AI has no lab, no microscopes, no excavations. Yes, a powerful enough algorithm might be able to discern something "new" from previously collected data.

Reminds me of the wonderful book Dune. There is a mention of the current state of archaeology in the universe. All of the archeologists are reviewing previous excavations. No one actually on site, looking or discovering.

18 posted on 07/20/2025 2:29:48 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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These dayz, “Peer review” = confirmation bias.

Let the Feds defund ALL of these charlatans.


19 posted on 07/20/2025 2:38:33 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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SA has long been neither Scientific nor America.

I gave up my subscription long ago.

[It was Great in the 60s when I wuz in HS...]


20 posted on 07/20/2025 2:41:43 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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