punked... proving the journals are full of bull$hit
Posted on 03/01/2014 6:35:04 AM PST by Malone LaVeigh
Do scientific papers ever seem like unreadable gibberish to you? Well, sometimes they really are.
Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them.
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This is just the tip of the iceberg. Science has become so politicized and mercenary that I view much of what is reported with a healthy skepticism.
Science is never wrong. Anyone who disagrees with gibberish is a flat Earther.
Its almost as if some enemy group has taken over our culture and made it unfashionable to have integrity, obey the rules, obey the law etc.
This doesn’t appear a political issue. Seems like part fraud and part prank.
I guess scientists were never very good at communicating.
If they are editing their owns’ gibberish, that’s like the fox and the henhouse. Maybe they all think it makes sense.
I worked with an older man who truly wrote gibberish. I even wrote down a few examples in a notebook. Of “reports” and other documentation he made for the Navy. I had to edit and he was so bad I couldn’t even understand what he was getting at. This is not difficult language, either; nothing really “scientific”. Example:
“The following are baseline was used to generated for the attachment.”
Serious. From 1994. We were engineers.
I knew it!
It is driven by the search for grant money too.
True.
Not this particular report, but this only represents a very small area of scientific literature that has been examined.
The ‘science community’ needs to start a satire blog like the military’s “DuffelBlog” satisfy this urge to amuse themselves.
punked... proving the journals are full of bull$hit
It becomes very political when taxpayer money is granted to researchers who agree with the gibberish. It’s political robbery, plain and simple.
“... an automated word generator
that puts random, fancy-sounding words together
in plausible sentence structures ...”
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I think there are some FReepers that use that same software!
It is ironic that gibberish like this is too easily accepted simply because of post modern ideology.
Right, I hope they go after global warming also.
I’m so old, I remember when science papers used to pertain to new scientific discoveries and breakthroughs. And Nobel prizes were awarded scientists based on their contributions to the advancement of the sciences.
Does this mean that global warming may be more political than scientific fact? Al Gore and a bunch of liberals want to know.
BTW, my degree is in Physics and Mathematics, so what do I know about scientific laws and theories. Move on, nothing to see here.
Gibberish? What gibberish?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLDgQg6bq7o
Those Freepers are being fitted with breathalyzers on their keyboards.
But if 120 papers containing gibberish can be published in “mainstream” scientific journals, what good are the journals? How much of what they publish is worthless, or worse? There was a story some years ago of a young hot-shot German physics PhD who was getting all kinds of amazing results in various fields. Turns out, it was just “matlab” science. Impressive graphics based on nothing more than imagination. I think the hockey stick falls into this category, shoddy science based on computer trickery, producing learned sounding nonsense.
I think it was Norman August who said (around 1970) that the computer was the enemy of progress. Any simulation that cannot be explained on the back of an envelope is worse than useless, it’s dangerous.
Good one, accurate too.
No, I won't cite any examples.
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