Dec 12, 2017 03:53 AM
The Biggest Junk Science of 2017
https://www.realclearscience.com/lists/b...ience.html
EXCERPT: In a perfectly logical world, where everyone has adopted science as a way of thinking, lists like this wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, as 2017 demonstrated, we're nowhere close to that world and may even be moving farther away. We saw countless cases where people insulted intelligence, ignored evidence, and abused reality. Yes, junk science is alive and thriving....
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Investigation finds Swedish scientists committed scientific misconduct
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08321-2
EXCERPT: Two Swedish scientists have been found guilty of "misconduct in research" in a paper that they published in Science1 and later retracted. Their highly publicized work had suggested that tiny particles of plastic in the ocean harm fish. The misconduct ruling was made by an investigative board from Uppsala University in Sweden, where the researchers work....
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https://www.realclearscience.com/lists/b...ience.html
EXCERPT: In a perfectly logical world, where everyone has adopted science as a way of thinking, lists like this wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, as 2017 demonstrated, we're nowhere close to that world and may even be moving farther away. We saw countless cases where people insulted intelligence, ignored evidence, and abused reality. Yes, junk science is alive and thriving....
MORE: https://www.realclearscience.com/lists/b...ience.html
Investigation finds Swedish scientists committed scientific misconduct
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08321-2
EXCERPT: Two Swedish scientists have been found guilty of "misconduct in research" in a paper that they published in Science1 and later retracted. Their highly publicized work had suggested that tiny particles of plastic in the ocean harm fish. The misconduct ruling was made by an investigative board from Uppsala University in Sweden, where the researchers work....
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