Off-Topic Science or the lack thereof

[JD08]

BIG: Everything we knew about Alzheimer’s may be based on a fabricated study, and the DOJ just launched a criminal investigation into the company behind it

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an investigation into Cassava Sciences over an Alzheimer's drug the company developed. The DOJ is investigating as it appears the research behind the drug may have been fabricated, and that same study has informed almost all Alzheimer's research for...

notthebee.com

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26250057_How_Many_Scientists_Fabricate_and_Falsify_Research_A_Systematic_Review_and_Meta-Analysis_of_Survey_Data

 

[NC_Canes_11]

Public trials and prison sentences

 

[imurcane]

Hangem all

 

[ddann]

#trustthescience

 

[Suhrthing]

#TheScienceIsSettled #TrustExperts

Sounds like the cherry picked data that lead to the war on fats and led to Diabetic States of America.

 

[JD08]

#TheScienceIsSettled #TrustExperts

Sounds like the cherry picked data that lead to the war on fats and lead to Diabetic States of America.

This is the problem. We accept the results based on peer review, but it's looking like peers aren't really reviewing.

 

[Suhrthing]

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False

Published research findings are sometimes refuted by subsequent evidence, says Ioannidis, with ensuing confusion and disappointment.

journals.plos.org

Mix in the immense financial pressures, the need to always be creating new drugs and the ability to hide the methods and underlying data of your "research" - and you get BigPharma.

 

[crossover22[]_[]]

Member when brandon said in a few years every hospital bed will have a alzheimers patient in it?

I member.

 

[Empirical Cane]

Member when brandon said in a few years every hospital bed will have a alzheimers patient in it?

I member.

I don't remember.

Now where did I leave my keys?

 

[TemplarCane]

#trustnoone

 

[dycane]

Muh science!

 

[Suhrthing]

 

[JD08]

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220812-the-illusion-of-knowledge-that-makes-people-overconfident

 

[SpikeUM]

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220812-the-illusion-of-knowledge-that-makes-people-overconfident

"smartest person in the room" complex.....

 

[JD08]

Here's a perfect example of bad science. They found a correlation between air pollution and fat women. Of course it's the pollution, not meal choices or lack of exercise.

 

[ithacane]

Here's a perfect example of bad science. They found a correlation between air pollution and fat women. Of course it's the pollution, not meal choices or lack of exercise.

Anyone else think it's funny when someone makes a big food order and at the end says, "and a diet coke"?!?

 

[SpikeUM]

Anyone else think it's funny when someone makes a big food order and at the end says, "and a diet coke"?!?

You and I have never met, so how do you know what I like?

 

[SpikeUM]

Here's a perfect example of bad science. They found a correlation between air pollution and fat women. Of course it's the pollution, not meal choices or lack of exercise.

Its the whole deflection epidemic, its never "my fault", global warming made me fat, or made me commit a crime, the evil establishment forced these huge student loans on me, its the awful gas station owners that are keeping gas prices high, its the mean fascists wont accept my death certificate and still want to make me get a voter ID, et al

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

Anyone else think it's funny when someone makes a big food order and at the end says, "and a diet coke"?!?

Hold on now... If you order the large fries, but then get an unsweetened tea as your beverage, that's called balance!

 

[No_Fly_Zone]

Its the whole deflection epidemic, its never "my fault", global warming made me fat, or made me commit a crime, the evil establishment forced these huge student loans on me, its the awful gas station owners that are keeping gas prices high, its the mean fascists wont accept my death certificate and still want to make me get a voter ID, et al

I mean, really hot weather does make be a bit ornery, too...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/07/16/two-new-studies-warn-that-hotter-world-will-be-more-violent-one/