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Dilbert loses newspapers, publishers, distributor, and possibly its website
Kim Christensen:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on March 12, 2023, 09:49:45 am ---Besides, if adults are so stupid that when they hear someone talk about injecting disinfectant, go and kill themselves with bleach, I consider it a win for the species: Darwin award worthy. Same goes with cats in microwave ovens, repeated strain injury warnings on keyboards, and so on.
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Somehow I don't think the cat chose to be microwaved... So Darwin doesn't really apply there. :(
But, there are lots of people like that and they vote too. And then there are those who get caught preying on gullible people...
--- Quote ---When one quarter to three quarters of accepted peer-reviewed publications end up being retracted or unreproducible or heavily revised, I'm not sure scientists' opinions should be considered to have much more weight; especially if they control any kind of research funding. Money talks, and publishing is necessary for continued grants.
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I would like to see a legitimate, non-Fox Newsish, source for this info please.
schmitt trigger:
--- Quote from: PlainName on March 11, 2023, 08:23:21 am ---
--- Quote ---Back to Adams, he said today that he's had more invites on shows than ever. So apart from his syndication financial "cancelling", he's doing phenomenally well. The tide turned very quickly on that one by the looks of it.
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Gosh, wish I could be cancelled like that! Who do I have to piss off?
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As many talk show hosts have discovered, being rude and offensive to a certain group, will endear you with opposing groups. Financial success follows.
Of courseā¦There are limits to this, as Alex Jones has found out.
PlainName:
I'll be careful to bail at $2m.
OK, $5m just to be comfortable.
Perhaps $10m would be a nice round figure though.
Nominal Animal:
--- Quote from: Kim Christensen on March 12, 2023, 04:21:01 pm ---Somehow I don't think the cat chose to be microwaved...
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:palm: Cats also don't get awarded Darwin awards.
--- Quote from: Kim Christensen on March 12, 2023, 04:21:01 pm ---I would like to see a legitimate, non-Fox Newsish, source for this info please.
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Demanding for sources when you yourself haven't provided a single one for your own assertions is a well-known extreme-left trolling pattern.
So, you first. I'll do that right after you provide sources for the assertions you've made in all your preceding posts in this thread. Just to make sure you're not just trolling me.
Sniping aside, here you go:
For an example of 60% of articles failing reproducibility test, look at psychology (Nature, 2015, cited 56 times). (And that's not all crappy papers, only the ones whose results cannot be reproduced.)
In preclinical cancer research, 89% of articles failed reproducibility testing, ie. their results could not be reproduced. Also note that this Nature article has been cited 1851 times, so it is definitely main-stream science, not some lone goofball spouting nonsense.
Or you could go read about the survey of 1576 scientists Nature did in May 2016. The initial numbers often cited from that are fractions of scientists having had issues with reproducibility, not fractions of articles, so don't just skim it. Over half of those reported they believed there was a "reproducibility crisis" going on even then.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Kim Christensen on March 11, 2023, 09:17:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 11, 2023, 08:35:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Kim Christensen on March 11, 2023, 04:01:15 pm ---But Trump's opinion is not equal, not even close, to that of an expert in the field of study being questioned.
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It kind of is. Science is truth by majority. The opinion of a single expert is worth just as much as the opinion of a total idiot. Without a reference (= a panel of experts backed by scientific data), you can't say which opinion is closest to the truth. Absolute truth doesn't even exist.
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When the single expert is quoting peer reviewed studies and giving his opinion based on that, and the idiot is just making stuff up as he goes along, it's pretty obvious who you should listen to.
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But how do you know that from just watching TV? People like a president are supposed to know what is wise to do and what is not (even if they don't know themselves, they are expected to have knowledgable advisors backed by a team of scientists).
Good information has become a very scarse commodity in today's world. I just read an article that Fox News is being sued for parrotting Trump because it made them more money. The companies that build voting machines are claiming damages worth 3.5 billion US dollars. The presenters knew very well that what they where telling on TV was an outright lie.
And even peer reviewed reports can be completely wrong. Think about the 'study' that claimed measles vaccine caused autism. Turned out to be completely made up by the author but it has done a lot of damage (including deaths).
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