It’s now widely understood that science faces a “replication crisis” where attempts to re-do experiments frequently fail to yield the same results. In other words, a lot of cheating and/or incompetence is showing up in peer-reviewed journals these days, making it impossible for, say, doctors to know how to treat their patients or the rest of us to know what supplements to take, foods to eat, and exercise programs to choose.
But apparently,y it’s even worse than that. Check out the mess at a major scientific publisher:
Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures tainted by fraud
(Wall Street Journal) - Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals, leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley, a 217-year-old publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale research fraud.
In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed four journals. It isn’t alone: At least two other publishers have retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.
Although this large-scale fraud represents a small percentage of submissions to journals, it threatens the legitimacy of the nearly $30 billion academic publishing industry and the credibility of science as a whole.
Scientific papers typically include citations that acknowledge work that informed the research, but the suspect papers included lists of irrelevant references. Multiple papers included technical-sounding passages inserted midway through, what Bishop called an “AI gobbledygook sandwich.” Nearly identical contact emails in one cluster of studies were all registered to a university in China where few if any of the authors were based. It appeared that all came from the same source.
One of those tools, the “Problematic Paper Screener,” run by Guillaume Cabanac, a computer-science researcher who studies scholarly publishing at the Université Toulouse III-Paul Sabatier in France, scans the breadth of the published literature, some 130 million papers, looking for a range of red flags including “tortured phrases.”
Cabanac and his colleagues realized that researchers who wanted to avoid plagiarism detectors had swapped out key scientific terms for synonyms from automatic text generators, leading to comically misfit phrases. “Breast cancer” became “bosom peril”; “fluid dynamics” became “gooey stream”; “artificial intelligence” became “counterfeit consciousness.” The tool is publicly available.
Generative AI has just handed them a winning lottery ticket,” Eggleton of IOP Publishing said. “They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the detection methods are not where we need them to be. I can only see that challenge increasing.”
Science, it seems, has become an early victim of the deep-fake crime wave flowing from generative AI. But let’s not forget the other, potentially more serious problem of “bought and paid for science” where study results are determined not by the data but by the preference of the funding source. How many of today’s widely-prescribed drugs are based on fake results? Possibly many.
The takeaway: Science has joined the list of big systems that can’t be trusted. And we are increasingly on our own.
https://usawatchdog.com/trump-guilty-missiles-fired-on-russia-rubinos-analysis/ : 24 minutes in.
The world where the fakeness is the reality is the world where WWIII ain't gonna happen because of nukes. The WE, the Elohim that I channel, the Spiritual World that is the Real Intelligence, RI, known too as Brahma teaches the truth. The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki didn't happen as reported and repeated over and over and over again for the past almost-80 years.
https://katherinebrannenartist.com/kitty-licks/962-the-reality-that-no-nuclear-attacks-since-the-1940s-trick-photography-created-them-is-the-truth-that.html
Now Kitty Licks is merely a pussy with tits, so hearing her might not happen. And her best boyfriend is the 30+ years now dead ghost of Kurt Cobain. Yes. He flies like Casper but looks like Kurt, cute as ever. So that might be too weird to stomach but...
Check out the truth. Now think about the people trying to use fake science to enforce pandemic realities that then force toxic injections to "stay safe" from fictional diseases. Think of near constant warfare since 1945. Think about the Manhattan Project's owners, the really really really really rich and connected people, "the elite", that rely on servants to do everything for them...These incompetents created the nukes in secret? Nukes that haven't been used again since 1945 but have created the existential threat that always lingers and NATO and constant non-nuclear war going on and intelligence agencies and outrageous defense budgets and $trillions missing from the Pentagon, etc....All while they are bankrupting the USA and depopulating other countries, Vietnam and Iraq for instance, to "keep us safe from the __________ threat".
Why haven't they used the nukes to thin out the people more quickly? Why? Because the nuclear fission didn't ever really happen. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were simply carpet bombed just like Berlin was. And the Hollywood world was employed to produce the images that show "mushroom clouds" forming superimposed on burning fires with big explosion sounds. Now that sounds plausible, right?
Money changers are the really big folks that must be dethroned. Decentralize currency control and abolish the IRS. Take away the money changers', the banking cartels', monopoly on money creation. And taxes are needed why?
Now think again about the reality that Kitty Licks is talking to you about the world where the Spiritual is real. The spiritual too is there to remember that loading up on guns means somebody will be shot dead.
Loading up on trust, responsibility, honesty, kindness and, simply put, the old fashioned Golden Rule means what? A better world? Huh?
Life is the truth that the going home to another world will be when the realities are that the world isn't the thing to be bought and sold but the home to the spiritual needs too and too the home to the animals that are in fact actually free, except the farm animals that provide the nourishment to the many people starving on the Animal Farm of Orwell's massively grand novel.
God is real. And God wants a better world. And the Holy Spirit is the Brahma. God wants the animals to be able to be allowed more space too.
https://youtu.be/N3NA17CCboA?si=P9B3_qCnLues3hQO
This is, unfortunately, nothing new. I recall back in my undergraduate days (early 1980s) purchasing an interesting book on this very topic. Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1126068.Betrayers_of_the_Truth) took a deep dive into the incentivisations within science/academia that led many researchers to 'cook the books' as it were. Tenure. Research grants. 'Fame'. And a host of other influences (including the 'publish or perish' mentality) all have an impact. This text challenged my view of science as some great 'objective' arbiter of the truth and convinced me that everything needs to be questioned. Everything.
The leveraging of science by politics is also nothing new. I can't help but think of the eugenics movement in this way (see Dr. Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man for more on this). And when people make such arguments about the 'science' supporting a sociopolitical movement or policy, I always have to ask: Whose science? Which science?
While the scientific method may be the ideal means of zeroing in on some ideal and 'objective' universal 'truths', it is carried out by and interpreted via totally subjective humans and all their foibles and biases.
Far too many place science and scientists upon an 'objective' pedestal with little consideration of the socio-cultural, -political, and -economic influences that impact the practice and its practitioners.
A quote at the beginning of a paper critical of the 'renewable energy transition' by Megan Seibert and ecologist Dr Bill Rees resonates with me: "We begin with a reminder that humans are storytellers by nature. We socially construct complex sets of facts, beliefs, and values that guide how we operate in the world. Indeed, humans act out of their socially constructed narratives as if they were real. All political ideologies, religious doctrines, economic paradigms, cultural narratives—even scientific theories—are socially constructed “stories” that may or may not accurately reflect any aspect of reality they purport to represent. Once a particular construct has taken hold, its adherents are likely to treat it more seriously than opposing evidence from an alternate conceptual framework."