Showing posts with label Science Failures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science Failures. Show all posts
Monday, January 29, 2018

Overturning Previous Science, After Roughly a Half Century

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Science true believers won't internalize this, because for them what "experts" declare is truth. This goes contrary to a life ...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Science Is Just Whatever Scientists Do...

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Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due to Contaminated Cells This is very, very bad. Researchers warn that large parts of biom...
Monday, July 31, 2017

Headline of the Week

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Facebook engineers panic, pull plug on AI after bots develop their own language So just what did they expect? Servility from "intellige...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Never Heard of Sheep, Right?

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Ancient humans had sex with non humans And there's always stripper poles, parking meters and pickup trucks. Hey, wait! If there's ...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Settled Science: Two More Falsifications

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Higher sodium intake associated with lower blood pressure. You read that right. And: Saturated fat SHOCK: Cardiologists claim warnings it cl...

Science-Speak For "The Predictions Didn't Work Out So Well, So We're Changing Them"

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Anthropogenic impact on Antarctic surface mass balance, currently masked by natural variability, to emerge by mid-century So the ice mass di...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Mathematical Error In Climate Models?

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What we know for certain is that (a) data must be manipulated in order to fit the curve; (b) the temperature hiatus is now long enough to ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2016

The Natural Selection of Bad Science

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Study warns that science as we know it is evolving into something shoddy and unreliable Proving yet again that entropy (principle of physic...
Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Another Scientific Principle is Dropped

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Everyone recommends flossing – but there's hardly any proof it works Dental organizations and the federal government have long urged ...
Thursday, July 7, 2016

40,000 fMRI Studies: Trashed

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Due to a bad assumption used in the statistical analysis of fMRI data, it has been determined that there is a 70% false positive rate for t...
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Sunday, April 24, 2016

More "Pseudoscience" Involving Activists

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Glyphosate, the MMR vaccine and pseudoscience A large dossier claiming to find evidence that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic” was pub...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Science and Reality

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Scientific Regress The problem with ­science is that so much of it simply isn’t. by William A. Wilson May 2016 Last summer, the Open Sc...
Sunday, April 10, 2016

Smarter? Or Stupider? More Unsettled Science

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The Flynn Effect: A Meta-analysis The Flynn Effect has long been accepted. It says that general population IQ has increased at 0.3 points pe...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Another Settled Science Bites the Dust

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Full-fat milk 'may drastically reduce risk of diabetes' - study "The 15-year study, in which researchers analysed the blood o...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Bad Science on Breast Feeding

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The breastfeeding story is more complicated than you think "To conduct their research, the authors of the studies, published in the m...
Friday, February 12, 2016

Study: Transparency Lacking in Biomedical Literature

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Study: Transparency Lacking in Biomedical Literature Few authors make their full data available and most published papers do not clearly s...
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Thursday, December 10, 2015

More Bogus Science Debunked: Scientismists Hit Hardest

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Scientists say happiness won't extend your life after all Happy people live longer, a relationship that’s been documented in a variety...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

More Phony Science

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Got Incompetence? The Federal Gov't Has Misled Public About Milk For Decades "If you look up "whole milk" in the govern...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

More Bad Science "Fact" Bites The Dirt

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If you can call economics a science. But it is used for political policy. From the Kaus Files: Mariel, Farewell? "The law of supply...
Friday, August 28, 2015

More Bogus Science

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Study delivers bleak verdict on validity of psychology experiment results "Bleak" is too generous. "In the investigation, a w...
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