Posted on 08/23/2023 8:29:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yep. And claiming that model projections are actual “evidence.” Lot of problems with the science literature these days. Rather like the old Soviet model: , whatever fits the party line is science.
Peer review worked pretty well, once upon a time. Author submits a paper, editors assign it to review by three anonymous reviewers familiar with the subject matter. The reviewers return their opinions, make suggestions, etc. And the editors decide about publication.
Now, the academic domain is swamped by innumerable submissions, totally overwhelming the system. Plus, the addition of numerous “co-authors” means you can co-opt most of the people who should be doing an objective review, leaving the review process in the hands of reviewers who don’t know the field much and don’t much care.. Or maybe who really are friends of the author because the anonymity clause has broken down.
But no, you didn’t get to pick your peers.
I said it before and I’ll say it again. Trust science, not scientists.
The science is settled. Trust the science.
For example, if we have instructions on how to install a piece of software no one has time to take a clean computer and follow the instructions step by step to duplicate the installation. Instead we end up looking for grammar errors or missing acronym definitions.
How many of these science papers are subject to repeated experiments? Without that you get the weekly flip on whether coffee is good for you or bad based on very thin data or you base national policies on sloppy data.
Only two weeks to ‘exaggerated claims!’
Come on, y'all! You're not a follower of ‘exaggerated claims!’
"The observer bias or the Hawthorne effect refers to the fact that people behave differently when they know they are observed."
I think that this can explain a lot of, if not nearly ALL, study flaws involving human subject studies.
It’s been that way for that magazine for quite a while. I canceled my subscription the day one of their board members posted an impassioned plea for “Women’s Mathematics.” I thought at the time that had to be the high water mark in the Long March Through The Institutions. Turned out it wasn’t even a rest stop.
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Were 2,599 of the 2,600 about “global warming”?
.......using cautious language (i.e., “could” or “appear to”) to avoid sounding overconfident and giving readers a misleading conclusion.......
That is not “hedging”. It has been standard practice in writing scientific papers (including all of my own).
Now we have overconfident scientists who believe their conclusions have more validity than science really allows!
Perhaps some of their papers verge on science fiction!
That is especially true of the very frequent editorials in “Science” on “climate change” and on “equity”!!
Some of them have to do not with “climate science”, but with “equity”!!
I know that climate crap is in vogue, but the greatest pile of fraudulent research has always been the garbage put out by behavioral “science”.
I've always been bemused by the "homosexuals are born that way" statement.
If it is a genetic flaw, because nature kills that which does not improve the breed, it follows that homosexuality is like Tay-Sachs or Down's Syndrome. Modern medicine can only extend such life spans.
Since homosexuality, by its very nature, is not passed on from father to son, or mother to daughter, is it a double, recessive, and can it be isolated to a flawed gene sequence?
However, we are no longer permitted to ask.
Science magazine is one of the top journals in the world.
It is very difficult to get published in Science. They publish articles from several different disciplines, such that it is one of the few journals that contains physics, biochemistry, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and other scientific disciplines in one journal.
I have put the table of contents from the current (Aug 2023) issue below. One article talks about the role of climate change in destroying wildlife in southern California 13,000 years ago. A letter talks about how solar energy projects put food security at risk (in China). An article discusses very early human embryonic development and another talks about a helium star with a strong magnetic field.
In other words, looking through the table of contents, it is apparent that Science publishes scientific literature, not sociological mumbo-jumbo meant to intellectualize socialist dictatorships.
Science Magazine Table of Contents, 18 Aug 2023:
EDITORIAL
No democracy, no academia
BY EINAT ALBINSHIKMA BRESSLERASYA ROLLSMICHAL SCHWARTZEHUD SHAPIRO 17 AUG 2023: 715 FULL ACCESS
RELATED IN DEPTH
Israeli scientists speak out against ‘destructive’ policies
BY MICHELE CHABIN
NEWS IN BRIEF
News at a glance
17 AUG 2023: 716-717
IN DEPTH
Maui’s deadly blazes reveal a fire-prone Hawaii
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BY MOLLY RAINS 17 AUG 2023: 718-719
Flammable, invasive grasses have changed the island landscape, say its shaken scientists
NIH project probes the human body’s multitude of genomes
BY MITCH LESLIE 17 AUG 2023: 719-720
Agency launches major effort to explore importance of accumulating mutations in somatic cells
After string of failures, Japan aims to launch x-ray telescope
BY DANIEL CLERY 17 AUG 2023: 720-721
Groundbreaking XRISM will capture spectra, revealing the motion and composition of million-degree gases
Myth of Alaskan city’s immunity to tsunamis dispelled
BY CHRISTIAN ELLIOTT 17 AUG 2023: 722
Lucky low tide helped Anchorage dodge catastrophic 1964 tsunami, first analysis of location’s risk finds
Israeli scientists speak out against ‘destructive’ policies
BY MICHELE CHABIN 17 AUG 2023: 723
Many fear erosion of academic freedom and loss of talent
RELATED EDITORIAL
No democracy, no academia
BY EINAT ALBIN, SHIKMA BRESSLER, ET AL.
FEATURE
Death by fire
BY MICHAEL PRICE 17 AUG 2023: 724-727
Wildfires, intensified by climate change and perhaps human activity, may have doomed Southern California’s big mammals 13,000 years ago
INSIGHTS
EXPERT VOICES
Social and institutional dimensions of science: The forgotten components of the science curriculum?
BY SIBEL ERDURAN 18 AUG 2023 Free
PERSPECTIVES
Bacteria stretch and bend oil to feed their appetite
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BY TERRY J. MCGENITYPIERRE PHILIPPE LAISSUE 17 AUG 2023: 728-729 NO ACCESS
Microbes reshape oil droplets to speed biodegradation
RELATED RESEARCH ARTICLE
Alcanivorax borkumensis biofilms enhance oil degradation by interfacial tubulation
BY M. PRASAD, N. OBANA, ET AL.
Targeting cancer with molecular glues
BY JUN O. LIU 17 AUG 2023: 729-730 NO ACCESS
Molecular glues suppress the active form of the oncogenic protein KRAS
RELATED RESEARCH ARTICLE
Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS
BY CHRISTOPHER J. SCHULZE, KYLE J. SEAMON, ET AL.
Extracting resources from abandoned mines
BY ZHONGWEN BAOCAROL J. PTACEKDAVID W. BLOWES 17 AUG 2023: 731-732 Free
Recovering minerals and metals from abandoned mines could aid decarbonization
What is a cell type?
BY JONAS SIMON FLECKJ. GRAY CAMPBARBARA TREUTLEIN 17 AUG 2023: 733-734 Free
A next step for cell atlases should be to chart perturbations in human model systems
POLICY FORUM
Create a culture of experiments in environmental programs
BY PAUL J. FERRAROTODD L. CHERRYJASON F. SHOGRENCHRISTIAN A. VOSSLERTIMOTHY N. CASONHILARY BYERLY FLINTJACOB P. HOCHARDOLOF JOHANSSON-STENMANPETER MARTINSSONJAMES J. MURPHY[...]LEAF VAN BOVEN 17 AUG 2023: 735-737 NO ACCESS
Organizations need a better “learning by doing” approach
BOOKS ET AL.
Public health versus personalized medicine
BY HENRY T. GREELY 17 AUG 2023: 738 NO ACCESS
Environmental health research is being undermined by genomic medicine, argues a philosopher
Battling information bias
BY JONATHAN WAI 17 AUG 2023: 739 NO ACCESS
Do not wait for society to reject scientific disinformation, tout the truth now
LETTERS
The global impact of EU forest protection policies
BY GIANLUCA CERULLOJOS BARLOWMATTHEW BETTSDAVID EDWARDSALISON EYRESFILIPE FRANÇARACHAEL GARRETTTHOMAS SWINFIELDELEANOR TEWTHOMAS WHITEANDREW BALMFORD17 AUG 2023: 740 NO ACCESS
Solar energy projects put food security at risk
BY ZHONGBIN B. LIYONGJUN ZHANGMENGQIU WANG 17 AUG 2023: 740-741 NO ACCESS
Save China’s gaurs
BY TAO XIANG 17 AUG 2023: 741 NO ACCESS
RESEARCH
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
In Science Journals
BY KEITH T. SMITHYURY SULEYMANOVPHIL SZUROMIH. JESSE SMITHMATTIA MAROSOCLAIRE OLINGYCOURTNEY MALOMICHAEL A. FUNKSACHA VIGNIERISETH THOMAS SCANLON[...]SARAH A. LEMPRIERE 17 AUG 2023: 743-745 Free
Highlights from the Science family of journals
In Other Journals
BY ELISA COLLADO FREGOSOSTELLA M. HURTLEYSETH THOMAS SCANLONCORINNE SIMONTIPHIL SZUROMISACHA VIGNIERIYURY SULEYMANOV 17 AUG 2023: 744-745 Free
Editors’ selections from the current scientific literature
RESEARCH ARTICLES
Pre–Younger Dryas megafaunal extirpation at Rancho La Brea linked to fire-driven state shift
BY F. ROBIN O’KEEFEREGAN E. DUNNELIC M. WEITZELMICHAEL R. WATERSLISA N. MARTINEZWENDY J. BINDERJOHN R. SOUTHONJOSHUA E. COHENJULIE A. MEACHENLARISA R. G. DESANTIS[...]EMILY L. LINDSEY 18 AUG 2023 Free
Around 10,000 years ago, megafaunal losses in California were driven by fires in an ecosystem made vulnerable by climate change.
ABSTRACT
Yolk sac cell atlas reveals multiorgan functions during human early development
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BY ISSAC GOHRACHEL A. BOTTINGANTONY ROSESIMONE WEBBJUSTIN ENGELBERTYORICK GITTONEMILY STEPHENSONMARIANA QUIROGA LONDOÑOMICHAEL MATHERNICOLE MENDE[...]MUZLIFAH HANIFFA 18 AUG 2023 NO ACCESS
The human yolk sac is a key staging ground for an array of vital organ functions during development in utero.
ABSTRACT
Alcanivorax borkumensis biofilms enhance oil degradation by interfacial tubulation
BY M. PRASADN. OBANAS.-Z. LINS. ZHAOK. SAKAIC. BLANCH-MERCADERJ. PROSTN. NOMURAJ.-F. RUPPRECHTJ. FATTACCIOLIA. S. UTADA17 AUG 2023: 748-753 NO ACCESS
A type of oil-eating bacteria adapts its biofilm interfacial properties to accelerate the rate of oil consumption.
ABSTRACT
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Bacteria stretch and bend oil to feed their appetite
BY TERRY J. MCGENITY, PIERRE PHILIPPE LAISSUE
Design of stimulus-responsive two-state hinge proteins
BY FLORIAN PRAETORIUSPHILIP J. Y. LEUNGMAXX H. TESSMERADAM BROERMANCULLEN DEMAKISACACIA F. DISHMANARVIND PILLAIABBAS IDRISDAVID JUERGENSJUSTAS DAUPARAS[...]DAVID BAKER 17 AUG 2023: 754-760 NO ACCESS
A two-state design of protein switches that couple effector binding to a conformational change is discussed.
ABSTRACT
A massive helium star with a sufficiently strong magnetic field to form a magnetar
BY TOMER SHENARGREGG A. WADEPABLO MARCHANTSTEFANO BAGNULOJULIA BODENSTEINERDOMINIC M. BOWMANAVISHAI GILKISNORBERT LANGERANDRÉ NICOLAS-CHENÉLIDIA OSKINOVA[...]SILVIA TOONEN 17 AUG 2023: 761-765 NO ACCESS
Observations and models of a Wolf-Rayet star indicate that it will produce a magnetar when it explodes as a supernova.
ABSTRACT
Overcoming losses in superlenses with synthetic waves of complex frequency
BY FUXIN GUANXIANGDONG GUOKEBO ZENGSHU ZHANGZHAOYU NIESHAOJIE MAQING DAIJOHN PENDRYXIANG ZHANGSHUANG ZHANG17 AUG 2023: 766-771 NO ACCESS
Illumination with complex frequency waves can effectively compensate the losses in superlens materials.
ABSTRACT
Human POT1 protects the telomeric ds-ss DNA junction by capping the 5′ end of the chromosome
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BY VALERIE M. TESMERKIRSTEN A. BRENNERJAYAKRISHNAN NANDAKUMAR 17 AUG 2023: 771-778 NO ACCESS
POT1 binds the 5ʹ end of the telomeric double-strand–single-strand DNA junction to prevent human chromosome ends from being sensed as DNA damage.
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Ergodicity breaking in rapidly rotating C60 fullerenes
BY LEE R. LIUDINA ROSENBERGP. BRYAN CHANGALAPHILIP J. D. CROWLEYDAVID J. NESBITTNORMAN Y. YAOTIMUR V. TSCHERBULJUN YE 17 AUG 2023: 778-783 NO ACCESS
The icosahedral C60 molecule’ s ability to thermalize its rotational degree of freedom can switch on and off as it spins up.
ABSTRACT
Ligand-protected metal nanoclusters as low-loss, highly polarized emitters for optical waveguides
BY XIAOJIAN WANGBING YINLIRONG JIANGCUI YANGYING LIUGANG ZOUSHUANG CHENMANZHOU ZHU 27 JUL 2023: 784-790 NO ACCESS
Active optical waveguides with low loss and high polarization were prepared by aggregating stable, emissive metal clusters.
ABSTRACT
Universal theory of strange metals from spatially random interactions
BY AAVISHKAR A. PATELHAOYU GUOILYA ESTERLISSUBIR SACHDEV 17 AUG 2023: 790-793 NO ACCESS
Theory accounts for the unusual temperature dependence of transport properties in strange metals.
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Chemical remodeling of a cellular chaperone to target the active state of mutant KRAS
BY CHRISTOPHER J. SCHULZEKYLE J. SEAMONYULEI ZHAOYU C. YANGJIM CREGGDONGSUNG KIMAIDAN TOMLINSONTIFFANY J. CHOYZHICAN WANGBEN SANG[...]PIRO LITO 17 AUG 2023: 794-799 NO ACCESS
Small molecules recruit cyclophilin A to the active state of mutant KRAS to disrupt oncogenic signaling and tumor growth.
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Targeting cancer with molecular glues
BY JUN O. LIU
MyoD-family inhibitor proteins act as auxiliary subunits of
Piezo channels
BY ZIJING ZHOUXIAONUO MAYIECHANG LINDELFINE CHENGNAVID BAVIGENEVIEVE A. SECKERJINYUAN VERO LIVAIBHAO JANBANDHUDREW L. SUTTONHAMISH S. SCOTT[...]CHARLES D. COX 17 AUG 2023: 799-804 NO ACCESS
Discovery and characterization of binding partners for Piezo channels.
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Are you throwing shade on the Word of Wisdom?
John Smith hasn’t got a chance!
There’s a huge repeatability problem in academic publication world. The worst fields for repeatability are the social sciences and believe it not medicine.
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