At least ten thousand “research” papers were retracted by “academic” journals in 2023. For context, there were about 1,000 retracted papers in 2013 and 4,000 in 2022. This doesn't mean the high level of fraudulence is new. But admitting it is very much out of character for The Parasite Class™ (although it does create the illusion that improvements are coming).
"There’s a whole lot more to “free thinking” than trading one set of experts [sic] for another. Even when there aren’t corporate grants involved, “science” is always susceptible to a wide range of shortcuts, biases, limits, and falsehoods."
One of the things that drove me way from performative activism was the Fraud/Counter-Fraud dynamic. It's disheartening, to say the least, not to mention a tremendous waste. Passive consumption of confirmation bias plays right into that. It perpetuates fraud.
From my Catholic grammar school education (back in the fifties) I believe that the word "science" derives from the Latin verb root "scio," meaning "to know, to understand."
In seventh grade, when asked by the nuns what future careers we students wanted, I replied that I wanted to become "either a priest or a scientist, because both involved the search for truth."
"There’s a whole lot more to “free thinking” than trading one set of experts [sic] for another. Even when there aren’t corporate grants involved, “science” is always susceptible to a wide range of shortcuts, biases, limits, and falsehoods."
100%
Look what happens when people trusted...... this just in....
The Government of Canada is Betting $36 Million Taxpayer Dollars That Vaccines Are Not Entirely Safe https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/the-government-of-canada-is-betting
One of the things that drove me way from performative activism was the Fraud/Counter-Fraud dynamic. It's disheartening, to say the least, not to mention a tremendous waste. Passive consumption of confirmation bias plays right into that. It perpetuates fraud.
Thank You Mickey™
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From my Catholic grammar school education (back in the fifties) I believe that the word "science" derives from the Latin verb root "scio," meaning "to know, to understand."
In seventh grade, when asked by the nuns what future careers we students wanted, I replied that I wanted to become "either a priest or a scientist, because both involved the search for truth."
«Corruption is creeping into the system.»
Let's apply this kind of writing to other phenomena:
«Shoplifting is creeping into the stores.»
«Mugging is creeping onto the streets.»
It immediately sounds as if it was someone other than people doing it.