Posted on 07/20/2025 1:51:42 PM PDT by CFW
Nature used to be a prestigious journal, and deservedly so. Now it is, as with so many elite institutions, still prestigious, but undeservedly so. It, along with its subsidiary Nature-Springer, which publishes hundreds of scientific journals, is no longer concerned with the quality of the science it publishes and focuses on pleasing the commissars.
Elite institutions have been ideologically captured because, as with everything elite, they are downstream from the headwaters from which most prestige flows: academia. As academia became captured by Critical Theory, everything else has been as well, including science.
The result is clear: the descent into modern Lysenkoism--ideology and prestige-seeking over the search for truth or achieving practical results that benefit others.
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Springer-Nature's journal dedicated to obstetrics is called "Pregnancy and Childbirth," and it just hired a woman with no research experience and credentials from an online university to be the Lead Editor. She has not published a single research paper, and the thesis she wrote to get her diploma mill Ph.D. was entirely on racism, not pregnancy or childbirth.
When a member of Springer-Nature's Editorial Board brought this fact up and pointed out that her sole qualification was that she was a black woman, they relieved him of his duties.
Marchand is an obstetrician who also teaches at medical schools. He has invented several surgical techniques, so he knows a thing or two about pregnancy and childbirth. The new "Lead Editor?" Her "research" is in DEI.
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But Franklin has no research experience at all, and the idea that she would make a competent editor of a prestigious journal is absurd. A recent Ph.D. from an online diploma mill is only valuable because Springer Nature wanted to put a black woman as the face of the journal. That's it.
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gonna have to change “trust the science” to “trust the corrupt and fraudulent science” ...
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.
The older I get, the more I know what I don't know.
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
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.
It’s “settled”, then?
Well said. I could expostulate on the subject but I will will leave it with one simple question: why did evolution only happen once?
I thought it was just me.
I thought it was just me.
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...
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!
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.
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.
Has science came to a conclusion about if eggs are good for you?
I don’t think so. So why about global warming?
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.
These dayz, “Peer review” = confirmation bias.
Let the Feds defund ALL of these charlatans.
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...]
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