This ‘Globalist Report’ post, an article by Andrew Puhanic, leaps into our consciousness for its amazing facts and its relevance to several issues that drive this blog. Main responses to this from my point of view are:
1. A mockery of true science. It has always been understood (especially with hindsight), that science theories are potentially vulnerable because of measurement ability and accuracy, reproducibility, environmental factors, sample sizes and/or bias, the ability (or lack of), to be remote and independent from the physical factors as well as the human factors of agenda and personal ego. Many things! Usually beyond our control!
Yet, on the whole, man has great understanding and has achieved high levels of accomplishment in establishing scientific theories and practical outcomes. True science has been the goal and has largely been the reward of honest ideals and endeavours.
Now we are to learn that these ideals are not always lived up to. True and honest scientists will be greatly dismayed to learn of this contamination of scientific methodology.
2. Fraud and Corruption: The degree to which the fraud exists is mind-blowing. In many other areas of human endeavour we have unfortunately come to expect degrees of human frailty to interfere with an honest endeavours. Need I mention them? Policing systems, politics, media, wherever big money exists – pharmaceuticals, agricultural companies, banking, illicit drugs of course but that overlaps into other supposedly innocent areas.
With the commonly claimed exception of #4 below, general science is not expected to be among these areas.
3. The US Connection: The claimed proportion of retracted papers attributed to the US in particular requires more data as the total papers submitted are not catalogued. However, it seems from internet disclosures of suspect and worse, scientific interpretations and applications in these scientific areas, that the US is leading the pack in self-destruction of its own morals, social and political structures and financial system. In effect destroying itself.
4. The Global Warming Example: The science displayed in the global warming debacle is a clear example of this fraud, and vice versa. This exposure makes a mockery of the “peer-reviewed” claim of authenticity.
AN astonishing two-thirds of all biomedical and life-science research publications and research articles that have been retracted from the public domain have been retracted because of fraud.
An article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America reviewed more than 2000 scientific articles for reasons why they were retracted from public scrutiny and discovered that 67.4% of retractions were attributed to misconduct, of which includes fraud or suspected fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%) and plagiarism (9.8%).
Also, the number of articles retracted from circulation has increased 10 times since 1975.
The GOLDEN RULE 