Greenpeace Founder: Global Warming Hoax Pushed by Corrupt Scientists...
Greenpeace co-founder and former president of Greenpeace Canada Patrick Moore described the cynical and corrupt machinations fueling the narrative of anthropocentric global warming and “climate change”...
View ArticleThe science of climate change is anything but settled
On March 5, 58 senior military and national security leaders sent a letter to President Trump denouncing his plan to form a National Security Council panel to take a critical look at the science...
View ArticleThe science of climate change is anything but settled
In their letter, the Gang of 58 then used Hurricane Florence from last Major tornadoes in the U.S. have been on a downward trend since monitoring began in the 1950s, with record-low activity in 2018....
View Article‘I Basically Just Made It Up’: Confessions of a Social...
If I had known, 20 years ago, that my side in the ideological wars over gender and sex was going to win so decisively, I would have been ecstatic. Back then, I spent many evenings at the pub or at...
View ArticleClimate Science’s Myth-Buster
Curry is a scholar, not a pundit. Unlike many political and journalistic oracles, she never opines without proof. And she has data at her command. She tells me, for example, that between 1910 and 1940,...
View ArticleInfluential Stanford Study Of Psychiatric Hospitals May Have Been Fabricated
Stanford professor David Rosenhan wanted to prove that psychiatric hospitals of his day would instantly label and mistreat even the mildest of symptoms, so he convinced a group of students to go...
View ArticleStanford professor who changed America with just one study was also a liar
His research work was also groundbreaking. In 1973, Rosenhan published the paper “On Being Sane in Insane Places” in the prestigious journal Science, and it was a sensation. The study, in which eight...
View ArticleScience can be Great… Scientists? That Depends
“Follow the Science” has become a frequently heard rallying cry from the Left and their media in recent months. An even newer phenomenon is the bumper sticker asking “Got Science?” which is often...
View ArticleHow Much Scientific Research Is Actually Fraudulent?
Fraud may be rampant in biomedical research. My 2016 article "Broken Science" pointed to a variety of factors as explanations for why the results of a huge proportion of scientific studies were...
View ArticleTrusting Science Is Not the Same as Critical Thinking Experiments with...
Trusting Science Is Not the Same as Critical Thinking Experiments with participants given fake science Shows that those who “trust science” can be gullible July 27, 2021 | David F. Coppedge Like most...
View ArticleScientific Credibility and the File-Drawer Problem
A trope of contemporary social commentary is that “science” has somehow become “politicized,” such that people no longer trust or believe what is presented as the scientific consensus on important...
View ArticleWe’re told to ‘follow the science’ — yet some of...
... Ariely’s 2012 paper found that people were more honest when they signed a promise to be honest at the beginning of a transaction than when they signed the same promise at the end. ... The only...
View ArticleHarvard Faculty Criticize Findings, Methodology in Charles Murray Webinar
Charles A. Murray ’65 spoke to Harvard affiliates at a Friday webinar about his new book, which criticizes the idea that race and gender are social constructs. Faculty in attendance criticized his...
View Article"Follow the science" doesn't work when the science is this bad
I work on a small team of researchers who do what one might call “forensic peer review.” In the standard process for scientific publishing, peer reviewers take a manuscript mostly at face value: They...
View ArticleThe New Public Health Despotism
Of all the platform firms, Google is singular. Its near-monopoly on search (around 90%) puts it in a position to steer thought. And increasingly, it avows the steering of thought as its unique...
View ArticleIn Defense of “Misinformation”
In Defense of “Misinformation”Restrictions of scientific free speech will inevitably lead to restriction of any speech deemed detrimental to freedom.American sociologist Robert K. Merton once defined...
View ArticleRoyal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse
Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things WorseEditor’s note: See also, “The Rise of Totalitarian Science, 2022 Edition.”A leading science organization, the Royal Society (Britain’s...
View ArticleDissent is disappearing in science
I’ve been meaning to do a post about the self-destruction of the STEM fields (actually many, many posts), but I haven’t gotten around to it because there is just so darn much other idiocy to write...
View ArticleThe “Stochastic Terror” Lie
The “Stochastic Terror” LieThe Left’s latest gambit for suppressing speech is built on preposterous grounds.I browsed the news recently only to discover that, according to a popular science magazine, I...
View ArticleMy name is "your doctor," you are sick, prepare to die
The National Institutes of Health is directing people to an absolutely absurd paper published in the journal Advances in Health Sciences Education. I have no idea how prominent the journal is, but I...
View ArticleHow a scientific consensus can destroy good science
There’s a great article in Bari Weiss’ The Free Press that has great bearing on why consensus in science is often a bad thing, and how the consensus is enforced. Called "The Reason There’s Been No Cure...
View ArticleScience Is Not to Be Trusted
Skip Science should not be trusted in general, but we need to be especially diligent in acknowledging science as suspect when the science of the matter concerns the possibility that scientists, health...
View ArticleThe crisis in modern science
By definition, few things represent the pinnacle of human achievement. Among them are science, great art, free markets, great literature, philosophy, music, and American football. On that list, only...
View Article‘Caught-Red-Handed’: Scientists Call for Full Retraction of...
A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the journal Nature in March 2020 that explored the origins of...
View Article‘TrUsT tHe ScIeNcE!’ – Study Retractions Up 13,650% in...
The number of scientific papers retracted annually rose from just 40 in 2000 to almost 5,500 in 2022, representing a whopping 13,650% change over the past 22 years, with researchers estimating an...
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