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Re: Science Isn’t Broken

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On 11/21/2015 8:57 AM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> Science Isn’t Broken
>> http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/science-isnt-broken/
>
>> If you follow the headlines, your confidence in science may have
>> taken a hit lately.
>
>> Peer review? More like self-review. An investigation in November
>> uncovered a scam in which researchers were rubber-stamping their own
>> work, circumventing peer review at five high-profile publishers.
>>
>> Scientific journals? Not exactly a badge of legitimacy, given that
>> the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology recently
>> accepted for publication a paper titled “Get Me Off Your Fucking
>> Mailing List,” whose text was nothing more than those seven words,
>> repeated over and over for 10 pages. Two other journals allowed an
>> engineer posing as Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel to publish a
>> paper, “Fuzzy, Homogeneous Configurations.”
>>
>> Revolutionary findings? Possibly fabricated. In May, a couple of
>> University of California, Berkeley, grad students discovered
>> irregularities in Michael LaCour’s influential paper suggesting that
>> an in-person conversation with a gay person could change how people
>> felt about same-sex marriage. The journal Science retracted the paper
>> shortly after, when LaCour’s co-author could find no record of the
>> data.
>>
>> Taken together, headlines like these might suggest that science is a
>> shady enterprise that spits out a bunch of dressed-up nonsense. But
>> I’ve spent months investigating the problems hounding science, and
>> I’ve learned that the headline-grabbing cases of misconduct and fraud
>> are mere distractions. The state of our science is strong, but it’s
>> plagued by a universal problem: Science is hard — really fucking
>> hard.

Someone should apply these principles to the findings of some climate 
scientists.

-- 
dvus

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Science Isn’t Broken Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 07:57 -0600
  Re: Science Isn’t Broken dvus <dven1@adelphia.net> - 2015-11-21 09:24 -0500
    Re: Science Isn't Broken Double-A <double-a3@hush.com> - 2015-11-22 15:23 -0800
  Re: Science Isn’t Broken benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 14:13 -0500
  Re: Science Isn't Broken "Ross A. Finlayson" <ross.finlayson@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 11:50 -0800
    Re: Science Isn't Broken benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 16:34 -0500
    Re: Science Isn't Broken Mahipal <mahipal7638@gmail.com> - 2015-11-21 14:46 -0800

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