Posted on 05/31/2015 10:26:46 AM PDT by DeweyCA
The exposure of one of the biggest scientific frauds in recent memory...
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Over and over again, throughout the scientific community and the media, LaCour’s impossible-seeming results were treated as truth, in part because of the weight Green’s name carried, and in part, frankly, because people — researchers, journalists, activists —wanted to believe them.
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...Broockman was consistently told by friends and advisers to keep quiet about his concerns lest he earn a reputation as a troublemaker, or — perhaps worse — someone who merely replicates and investigates others’ research rather than plant a flag of his own.
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This might seem like a strange, mafia-ish argument to a non-academic, but within the small world of political science — particularly within the world of younger, less job-secure political scientists — it makes sense for at least two reasons. The first is that the moment your name is associated with the questioning of someone else’s work, you could be in trouble. If the target is someone above you, like Green, you’re seen as envious, as shamelessly trying to take down a big name. If the target is someone at your level, you’re throwing elbows in an unseemly manner. In either case, you may end up having one of your papers reviewed by the target of your inquiries (or one of their friends) at some point — in theory, peer reviewers are “blinded” to the identity of the author or authors of a paper they’re reviewing, but between earlier versions of papers floating around the internet and the fact that everyone knows what everyone else is working on, the reality is quite different. Moreover, the very few plum jobs and big grants don’t go to people who investigate other researchers’ work — they go to those who stake out their own research areas.
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This article is about fraudulent research done by a homosexual grad student at UCLA stating that people could quickly and permanently have their attitudes toward gays changed by simply talking with a gay person for 20 minutes. The article tells how this “research” fraud went undetected and was even published in the prestigious journal, Science.
Every citation in a paper has its own genealogy. It can be a challenge to find the original from which other citations have been derived.
This has been going on for a while.
Back in the late ‘90s, a physics professor published a parody article written in post-modern gobbledygook language that was published as a serious, scholarly article in an academic publication.
More details here: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/noretta.html
You can search on Alan Sokal and the “Social Text Affair” to find out more about this incident.
This is similar to the claim that domestic violence spikes on Super Bowl Sunday. Someone finally tracked the matter down. Not true. Secondly, is Science truly a prestigious journal? Call it like it is: super market tabloid of journals. They did it to themselves.
Sounds like the endless stream of “Global Warming Causes ________ “ research papers.
BFLR
note the names of the organizations involved in this case of fraudulent date supporting gay “marriage;” - Yale, Princeton, Stanford, NPR...
Not that they were responsible, but the fact they are SOOOO involved and interested in issues revolving around gay marriage. It is pure institutional bias.
America’s elites are corrupt to the core
One would think that excerpting a long article about “FRAUD” prominently shown in the headline, the poster might at the very least be (briefly) explicit about what the “FRAUD” is!
Seems to be. I was surprised when I posted that this one came up as it posted.
I’m happy to see these guys exposed.
“BFLR”???
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Which is utter BS. I've had many hours of interaction with homosexuals over the years, some "out" and others closeted about whom I learned later. I still reject the BEHAVIOR, and like or dislike (or have no particular opinion about) the individuals. I don't need to know, but if I find out I'm not about to preemptively reject them as people. The reverse is true for the "in your face" variety; I don't want to know them .
Exactly.
And the damage is enormous and permanent.
Although the original fraudulent study is exposed and erased, in the meantime, thousands of other sickos cite the fake study in the internet and those never go away.
And future sickos, with their addled pervert brains, are unable to confirm the validity by going to the original source.
Now, it's like high school with money. Big, taxpayer money. And, as Homer Simpson said, “Never say anything unless you're sure that everyone else feels exactly the same way.”
as Homer Simpson said, “Never say anything unless you’re sure that everyone else feels exactly the same way.”
A brave new world, indeed.
I would refute that contention/theory. I have had and have several friends for many years who are homosexual. One I have known since he was 15 half a century ago and just deciding he liked guys instead of girls. He was the brother of my best friend. I still talk to him from time to time. He is a good man other than that particular quirk and when he was young he used to try to talk me and others he knew into the idea that queer is normal. It did not even put a nick in our hetero bias. Aside:: It was a laugh watching the gorgeous females who were determined to change him. He had the looks of Errol Flynn.
That is similar to what Hayek said decades ago - that all too often the methods of the natural sciences are applied inappropriately to the social sciences. He called it "scientism".
I’m too lazy to look it up now, but I know that the report that second hand smoke was deadly was a total fabrication. But, it’s what the nannies wanted to hear, so people still believe it. And they used it to change every business in America.
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