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Over 100 published science journal articles just gibberish
Fox News ^ | March 01, 2014 | Maxim Lott

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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KEYWORDS: fraud; science
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To: bolobaby

Hey, dummy, do you hear me arguing for more investment in hot fusion?
***Yes, by direct implication. It is the only direct competitor of cold fusion, so by arguing against the noble efforts of cold fusion you argue FOR the multi$Billion fraud of CHF. Jesus called it “straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel”.

If someone were to, say, loudly decry the fallibilities of Ukranians while keeping completely silent about Russians, the implication is crystal clear. Dummy.


81 posted on 03/01/2014 8:00:37 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

Up your meds.


82 posted on 03/01/2014 8:02:34 PM PST by bolobaby
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To: shove_it

There already is the “Journal of Irreproduceable Results”


83 posted on 03/01/2014 8:05:10 PM PST by Mom MD
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To: Texicanus
Remember the old format for Scientific American?

A collection of papers with an abstract. That was a scientific publication, no bias, no agenda, just facts as best they knew.

Today's media-muddled minds cannot deal with information presented in that fashion.

ps. I teach Math, Chem and Physics at the high school level.

84 posted on 03/02/2014 5:38:00 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Politics are just the rules - Power is the game!)
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To: bolobaby

Up your meds.
***Up yours.


85 posted on 03/02/2014 8:44:47 AM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

Way to go, professors!

Combined PING! and DANG!


86 posted on 03/03/2014 3:39:01 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The PASSING LANE is for PASSING, not DAWDLING)
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To: eartrumpet

ROTFLMAO!

THANKS!


87 posted on 03/03/2014 5:52:55 AM PST by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: Graybeard58; Repeal The 17th
"I think there are some FReepers that use that same software!"

Good one, accurate too. No, I won't cite any examples.


Oh, I will! In a recent thread about the Romney/Obama race, one of the conservatives who stayed home rather than soil himself by voting for the "lesser of two evils" said that Romney is a liberal, which is true, but that "a vote for a liberal makes you a liberal."

That's like when the anthropologists went to a primitive place and tried to take pictures of tribesmen, but the primitives thought the camera was "stealing their soul."

88 posted on 03/03/2014 6:57:53 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: mjp
Postmodernists assume that there are no standards for truth, beauty, or goodness. The wording of a text is less important than the reader's interpretation of the text. The reader's subjective interpretation determines what the author intended.

"Critical theory" navel-gazing at its finest.

89 posted on 03/03/2014 7:02:54 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
But are they peer-reviewed by other word processors?

Now that's funny!

90 posted on 03/03/2014 7:05:08 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Albion Wilde

I held my nose and voted for THE TWO RINOS McNasty, and Romney-0-lite, What did I get, ZERO FOR ANOTHER 4 YRS!

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91 posted on 03/03/2014 7:10:29 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: IronJack
it's philosophy, which is nearly impossible to read regardless of who writes it.

The conceptual-generative individual may reiterate the empirical evidence of teleological metapraxis...

(translation: You can say that again!)

92 posted on 03/03/2014 7:16:58 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: LambSlave
just two decades ago, the peer review process for respected journals was very painstaking and thorough. I have noticed a lot of new journals popping up that are not so well respected

It's true in publishing as a whole. News sources used to have subject matter experts and editors, who paid attention to content and its meaning. Now, some geek just runs content through spellcheck and hits "send".

93 posted on 03/03/2014 7:19:50 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: GailA

Do take your prozac.


94 posted on 03/03/2014 7:22:48 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Albion Wilde

Ah, I see you’ve read Habermas.


95 posted on 03/03/2014 7:31:41 AM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack

LOL! Adorno’s sweetheart.


96 posted on 03/03/2014 8:02:06 AM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: Albion Wilde
Yep. Along with the rest of the Frankfurters.

I've got Habermas' "Discourses on Modernity." And let me tell you, if you ever have insomnia, I have the cure.

97 posted on 03/03/2014 2:49:06 PM PST by IronJack
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To: IronJack
I've got Habermas' "Discourses on Modernity." And let me tell you, if you ever have insomnia, I have the cure.

I prefer Tetris... thanks, anyway!

98 posted on 03/03/2014 4:16:25 PM PST by Albion Wilde (The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
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To: IronJack; Albion Wilde
... if you ever want to read turgid gibberish, try reading anything byJurgen Habermas, a post-modern philosopher.

As nonsensical as the writings of Habermas are, the writings of Joseph Ratzinger/Pope Benedict XVI are quite clear and articulate. There is a book that is a summation of a discussion/debate the two had.

The Dialectics of Secularization: On Reason and Religion

"Two of the worlds great contemporary thinkers--theologian and churchman Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, and Jurgen Habermas, philosopher and Neo-Marxist social critic--discuss and debate aspects of secularization, and the role of reason and religion in a free society. These insightful essays are the result of a remarkable dialogue between the two men, sponsored by the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, a little over a year before Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope.

Jurgen Habermas has surprised many observers with his call for "the secular society to acquire a new understanding of religious convictions", as Florian Schuller, director of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria, describes it his foreword. Habermas discusses whether secular reason provides sufficient grounds for a democratic constitutional state. Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI argues for the necessity of certain moral principles for maintaining a free state, and for the importance of genuine reason and authentic religion, rather than what he calls "pathologies of reason and religion", in order to uphold the states moral foundations. Both men insist that proponents of secular reason and religious conviction should learn from each other, even as they differ over the particular ways that mutual learning should occur."


99 posted on 03/04/2014 10:57:16 AM PST by ELS
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To: ELS

As dense as Habermas is, I will give him credit for his “post-post-modernism,” which recognizes that a philosophy that eschews all other philosopies is itself a philosophy, and that in a real world, no civilization can survive without some kind of moral framework, from wherever derived.


100 posted on 03/04/2014 11:25:44 AM PST by IronJack
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