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Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Science. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

FEMINIST PHYSICS - Defined and explained by a rather confused gender scholar - Read witty response by a reader

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  • Particle physics is one of the most beautiful and amazing sciences, one that sparks the imagination and seems to embrace mind-boggling concepts that up to recently resided only in the realm of religion.  
  • However, radical feminism has managed to desecrate this last bastion of scholarship. 
  • Whitney Stark, an LGBT researcher at the University of Arizona, has come up with a revolutionary idea:  Feminist physics.
  • After you read this article, with your mind still spinning by her explanation, don't miss a very witty comment by a Breitbart reader.
  • But first, here is the scholar, from a picture on her Twitter account, an academic paid for by hard-working taxpayers.  
  
University of Arizona Gender Scholar Creates a Feminist Brand of Physics to Combat Bigotry
 

A researcher at the University of Arizona claims to have created a feminist brand of quantum physics to weed out the bigotry that she believes follows from a study of Newtonian physics.
 
Researcher Whitney Stark of the University of Arizona’s Institute for LGBT Studies claims to have invented a new form of physics, intersectional quantum physics, that combats the alleged bigotries of classical science.
 
“Intersectionality and quantum physics can provide for differing perspectives on organizing practices long used by marginalized people, for enabling apparatuses that allow for new possibilities of safer spaces, and for practices of accountability,” she writes in the abstract for her paper, “Assembled Bodies: Reconfiguring Quantum Identities.”
 
Continue reading, including a Breitbart reader's response

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

FAKE SCIENCE - How a sting operation exposed fraud in scientific publications - And how an imaginary DR. FRAUD got so easily published

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  • We know that the scientific establishment's group-think determines what ideas get approved and published.
  • We also know that there is deliberate fraud in just about all branches of science.
  • And yet, politicians and activists  - usually of the left - routinely try to bolster their theories by invoking science, and will automatically reject any notion that questions their 'science'. 
  • The history of fraud in science is embarrassingly long.
  • Deliberate deceit by the pharmaceutical industry has caused countless tragedies in patients who trustingly consume approved medication whose research has been tampered with, or whose true side effects are minimized or hidden from the public.
  • Facts about vaccines are routinely hidden or misrepresented in order to promote the ever growing mandatory number of shots imposed on infants and children.
  • GMOs have a seal of approval in spite of proven evidence that they have detrimental consequences for the environment and those consuming them.
  • Wind turbines cause serious health effects on those living nearby, such as farmers, but this industry keeps growing.
  • Not long ago it was revealed that the sugar industry paid corrupt researchers to blame fat for health problems that were actually caused by sugar.  Remember when authorities told you that even eggs were bad for you, while ice cream was part of the four food groups allegedly good for you? 
RT - The sugar industry paid Harvard researchers in the 1960s to bury research linking sugar intake to heart disease and to instead make fat the culprit, according to a study of archival documents. “These internal documents show that the Sugar Research Foundation initiated coronary heart disease research in 1965 to protect market share and that its first project, a literature review, was published in the New English Journal of Medicine without disclosure of the sugar industry’s funding or role,” stated the study.   
The internal sugar industry documents were found in public archives by a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. The documents showed the sugar industry was aware of evidence in the 1960s that linked sugar consumption to high blood cholesterol and triglyceride levels and was thought to be risk factors for coronary heart disease.  The sugar industry paid the Harvard scientist the equivalent of $50,000 in 2016 dollars for their fake research.
  • Even without fraud, scientific knowledge is evolving daily.  In five or ten years many of our most sacred scientific theories will make the world laugh. 
  • Science must not be treated as a cult or a religion, with scientists as a clergy often wearing those authoritative white coats, upholding their holy theories as gospel. 
  • The following articles explain how a group of scientists fed up with fake science decided to create an imaginary scientist who managed to publish all sorts of rubbish in several respectable scientific journals.

Imaginary "Dr. Fraud" gets published
The researchers created a fake web presence for their “doctor,” along with a fake resume listing fake research publications and no editorial experience.
 

Sting Operation Reveals
Science's Insane Fake News Problem



If someone applied to a top position at a company, you’d hope a hiring manager would at least Google the applicant to ensure they’re qualified. A group of researchers sent phony resumes to 360 scientific journals for an applicant whose Polish name translated to “Dr. Fraud.” And 48 journals happily appointed the fake doctor to their editorial board.
 
This sting operation was the first systematic analysis on editorial roles in science publishing, adding concrete evidence to a problem past stings have shed light on.
 
There are a whole lot of “predatory” scientific journals out there, journals that take advantage of scientists’ need to produce articles by publishing anything for a fee, without checking to make sure the paper is actually new research, worth publishing, and not completely inaccurate.
 
CONTINUE READING this article, and one stating that only 1% of all scientific papers adheres to the scientific method.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

A PECULIAR STUDY WARNS THAT WATCHING NATURE DOCUMENTARIES INCREASES RELIGIOUS FEELINGS while weakening belief in controversial scientific dogma

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  • The Daily Mail has just published an article on a supposedly scientific study which concludes that watching nature shows such as those by David Attenborough and David Cox reinforces religious views and increases questioning of science's most controversial ideas.
  • Sir David has described himself as an agnostic rather than an atheist and believes that there may be a God
    Heading for extinction due to poaching
    From this Daily Mail report the study appears flawed, and inspired by leftist politics. 
  • Enough damage is already being done at school with children as young as seven being indoctrinated on a variety of human sexual activities, with the endorsement of deviancies at a time when their minds should be left free to dream and discover the magic of childhood and the natural world.
  • Modern kids become TV and computer addicts as toddlers, and so they miss tens of thousands of hours when they could be playing outdoors.
    And if that wasn't weird enough the study claims the popular nature programmes may even be turning us off science
    David Attenborough
    with a friend
  • If you have children, I hope you will encourage them to watch documentaries that present the natural world as something awe inspiring, and where animals deserve our admiration, empathy, and respect.  Unfortunately, many disagree.
  • Some object to this point of view because they can't rape and pillage the environment fast enough. 
  • Others because they see the belief in God and the sacredness of nature as an obstacle to their efforts of placing their atheist leftist ideology and leftist leaders on a pedestal. 
  • Others object to religions such as Christianity and Judaism because they are a bulwark against the ongoing Islamization of the West, where people with no values are passively allowing themselves to be invaded and colonized by Islam. 
  • Leftist moral relativism has neutered western populations to the point where they can't even identify, much less name, their enemy. 
  • 
    Human Universe, presented by Brian Cox, the famous English physicist who loves sharing his passion for science
    David Cox
    One notion to keep in mind is that belief in God and religiosity are not equivalent. 
  • One can believe in God and not follow any religion whatsoever.  They are not the same thing at all.  Religions have been constructed by men, while the belief in God is innate.
  • I'm not a religious person but I experience the presence of God in many ways, particularly in the mystery and awesomeness of nature.  I love to read about science more than any other subject. 
  • By showing students nature documentaries prior to asking them about religion and science, the study used a rather questionable method, since it cannot prove a direct connection between the documentary experience and their beliefs. 
  • The subjects' previous attitude towards God and religion was already there, formed by their own temperament and upbringing. 
  • All the study manages to suggest is that nature shows MIGHT reinforce their notion that there is something divine in the structure of nature and life itself. 
  • By the way, I used the words "scientific dogma" deliberately.  Scientific "truth" is being revised all the time, but the scientific establishment treats the latest truth as dogma.  In this they are similar to a religion.  Scientists who question the current scientific dogma are ostracized, their work does not get published, they are refused grants, and they may even lose their jobs. 
Daily Mail:  Sir David Attenborough and Brian Cox's TV nature shows are 'putting viewers off science' because the beautiful scenes reaffirm belief in God.
  • New study suggests nature programmes are putting viewers off science 
  • It found programmes like BBC's Planet Earth can also influence religiosity
  • Religious people often 'have faith reaffirmed by the beauty on the screen'
  • The study, published in the journal Emotion, was carried out by Claremont McKenna College in California.
TV shows designed to inspire awe at the natural world could make viewers less inclined to believe scientific theories about the world, a study suggests.
 
It found religious people who watch programmes such as BBC’s Planet Earth, presented by Sir David Attenborough, are more likely to have their faith in God reaffirmed by the beauty they see on screen.
 
Atheists, meanwhile, are more likely to believe scientific theories that involve order rather than randomness in the universe.
 
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