Bad science
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In 1993, the parents of Jodie Marchant, went to the Aldermoor Surgery Health Clinic in Southhampton, UK to get their toddler an MMR shot. Parental consent is required for UK vaccinations. The Marchants had agreed that the MMR shot would be their daughter’s only vaccine injection and they put their decision in writing. Instead, their vibrant, beautiful toddler screamed like never before as a […]
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When the scientific method is no longer about science and truth, but endowments, grants, tenure and keeping a paradigm of falsehood under wraps, it is time for a truth revolution. A brilliant article that meticulously describes the devastating compromises and subterfuge slithering about in boardrooms, scientific journals, research projects and universities is William A. Wilson’s “Scientific […]
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There are a lot of liars in the science world. That should be an oxymoron, but it’s not. Science by its definition means a search for truth without regard for one’s personal preference. You know, the hypothesis, the experiments to see if this is so, and then conclusions based on evidence. But in today’s culture lying […]
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A new federal government program seeks to indoctrinate the next generation of farmers into believing that everyday humans are somehow responsible for causing irreparable climate change and global warming – and these charlatans are using your tax dollars to do it! The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has awarded a $150,000 grant to North Carolina […]
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A team of scientists created a bit of a frenzy this week after purporting an alternative hypothesis that could explain the unusual number of missing ships, planes and people in the Bermuda Triangle. Researchers at the Arctic University of Norway purport that craters on the seabed near the coast of Norway were created by pockets […]
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What is the scientific method? Here is how the Free Dictionary defines the process: “The principles and empirical processes of discovery and demonstration considered characteristic of or necessary for scientific investigation, generally involving the observation of phenomena, the formulation of a hypothesis concerning the phenomena, experimentation to demonstrate the truth or falseness of the hypothesis, and a […]
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The debate as to whether alcohol or marijuana is more harmful is not a new one. For years, medical-marijuana proponents and legalization advocates have asserted that cannabis is far safer than alcohol. And they’ve long maintained that it is hypocritical for a nation to allow alcohol marketing and sales while banning marijuana. Finally, a recent […]
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Kamalkant Shah, a lab technician who worked at a New Jersey State Police drug testing unit between 2005 and 2015, was caught fabricating test results late last year, calling into question the verdict of nearly 8,000 criminal cases that he had previously worked on. The integrity of Shah’s work was called into question in December […]
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In the article “Psycho Politics of Forced Mental Health Screenings” we discussed the findings of a paper entitled Political Conservatism as Motivation for Social Cognition. The authors of this paper, in a deliberate attempt to stir up discontent towards conservatism, highlighted their conclusions that conservatism is a rigid political philosophy that fears social change and […]
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New light has been shed on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and the chicanery tactics of Monsanto. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi Jagadisan, admitted that the company faked scientific data to gain regulatory approval. Jagadisan worked for Monsanto for almost two decades. Eight of those years he served as the managing director of India […]
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Do you really want to know what’s in your food? Nowadays, there’s really no telling what ingredients the food industry puts into our meals, after it was discovered that recycled and reprocessed animal meat waste is actually added to a variety of consumable grocery goods — including ice cream! Researchers from Italy, Belgium and elsewhere have been developing novel […]
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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt believes artificial intelligence (A.I.) can help researchers solve some of the world’s most pressing problems, including population growth, climate change, human development and education. Advances in A.I. have enabled researchers to establish a cause and effect relationship between data by weeding through vast amounts of information, according Schmidt. “AI will play this […]
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Seth Shostak, the director of communication at the Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) Institute, is optimistic with respect to the search for extraterrestrials. When it comes to the future of humanity, however, Shostak is a little more grim. In an opinion piece for SETI entitled, “Could This Be Humanity’s Last Century?,” Shostak suggests that the […]
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Scientists are often portrayed as objective, dispassionate researchers constantly in quest of the truth. However, science is a social institution subject to the same competition for grants and glory as any other establishment. As a result, some scientists tend to exaggerate the significance of their research to get ahead of their peers. This is at least what […]
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Statins, a widely prescribed drug used to lower “bad” cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease, could increase the risk of diabetes by nearly 50 percent, according to a major research trial. A six-year study from Finland involving nearly 9,000 men discovered that those prescribed statins were far more likely to suffer from poor […]
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