Showing posts with label fraud in science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraud in science. Show all posts
Saturday, May 13, 2023

Springer Closes Wall of Shame

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Springer Nature publishing closed the “Wall of Shame” website that recorded the retraction of medical research which failed for lack of proc...
Saturday, April 17, 2021

Amateur Astrophotography is Baloney

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“Are visual observers a dying breed?” is a topic on The Sky Searchers discussion board. It does not refer to the book  The Last Stargazers  ...
Sunday, May 17, 2020

Cosmos: A Spacetime Travesty

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Watching this on DVD with the captions on allowed me to identify an array of failures of science, reason, and fact.  The curtain opened...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Retraction Watch

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Let me tell you: 20% of scientists are crooks - and that includes me.  They lie about facts and figures. They steal from their graduate and ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

THE MAP THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

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William Smith (1769 – 1839) drew the first geological maps of England . He was born into a culture that was certain that the world had been...
Friday, January 11, 2013

Four Books About Bad Science

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When Science Goes Wrong: Twelve Tales from the Dark Side of Discovery by Simon LeVay (Plume Penguin, 2008).   LeVay lays out his facts i...
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Thursday, December 8, 2011

Another Case of Fraud in University Research

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“ ...   he was immediately fired by the university, admitted to his lengthy fraud, and handed back his PhD degree.” On the Strategy Pro...
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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Inconvenient Questions about Global Warming

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Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, 2006) suggests many questions about basic facts.   From about 20 minutes in to about ...
Monday, May 9, 2011

CSI: FLINT 2011 - Who Guards the Guardians?

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On May 6, I presented two classes to middle schoolers participating in "Super Science Friday" at the University of Michigan Flint ...