As a former scientist who was working in Alzheimer’s research and knew that beta amyloid plaques were a red herring for years, no shit. Science has a replication issue, and an even worse data manipulation/fabrication issue.
My research was challenging the dogma of beta amyloid, and I was told in no uncertain terms when my grant proposal was denied that “challenging the dogma would lead to denial of funds”. Despite the fact that I had actual, real, genuine data pushing forward my hypothesis (and data that flat out showed beta amyloid doesn’t have a function some people claimed it did) I was still turned down. Academia and science in general has decayed, with very few real research projects being done. It saddens me deeply, and I hope one day after it is fixed I can return.
The clotshot push should have spelt this out for most people in large crayon.
However, 'twas ever thus. Read Against Method by Paul Feyerabend. The idea of a 'pure' version of science ever existing, which was 100% empirically rigorous or ideologically uncontaminated, is a myth which both hamstrings the potential of science to uncover new truths and turns it into an unassailable monolith with too much power over mind and policy.
Just look at the fight it took to establish a link between H. Pylori and stomach ulcers:
Altman said that although many of his stories have received attention, none received more negative attention than a story that he wrote in the 1980s on the link between Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacteria and peptic ulcers. When a source called his attention to the possible link, Altman called one of the country’s leading gastroenterologists for a response. The physician told him he had just returned from his society’s annual meeting and there was no mention of H.pylori at the meeting. Altman wrote the article anyway, and the link was soon proven to be legitimate.
“I’ve never seen the medical community more defensive or more critical of a story,” Altman said. “They argued that with no evidence, this couldn’t be.”
Eventually resolved by one of the researchers simply consuming a beaker of the bacterium and giving himself an ulcer:
In his frustration to prove the connection, Marshall himself ingests H. pylori and documents his subsequent illness and successful treatment with antibiotics. He published those results in 1985. It will take another 10 years before the world’s medical community will finally acknowledge the correlation. And 20 years for the bestowment of a Nobel Peace Prize to Marshall and Warren for their longsuffering work. Indeed, there is no irony in the prize, as so many will attest to the lack of peace while suffering from PUD. (link)
I'm sure the surgical interventionists and the companies selling antacids for stomach ulcers all those years were incredibly grateful for this breakthrough and had no influence on its difficulty in gaining acceptance /s
OH WAIT, I never actually knew the following part of the story before!
In 1958 a general practitioner in Greece by the name of John Lykoudis cured his own gastroenteritis with antibiotics. He then began successfully treating his patients suffering the same and perfected a combination of antibiotics (called Elgaco), which he eventually patented in 1961. However, his Greek peers took a very dim view of his success and he was fined 4,000 Drachmas by the disciplinary committee of the Athens Medical Association. He was also indicted in the Greek courts for something akin to malpractice. The outcome is not entirely clear, but it is said many of his former patients testified on his behalf and he was never incarcerated. He died in 1980, never knowing his vindication.
How eerily familiar!
Anyway, all that aside, I think the main thing that's changed in very recent years is the naked weaponisation of the force science wields over the modern secular mindset, in order to browbeat the masses with a new kind of shame-based liturgy. We beat it by directing shame right back.
"Science has for too long been complicit in perpetuating structural inequalities and discrimination in society,” the recent issue of Nature Human Behavior continues.
Oh cool. So now we need to build parallel science, along with infrastructure and government...
The most fucked up part is that this was tried already in the Soviet Union, which collapsed, with the European and American as a control so we actually know that this is fucked, scientifically.
This time we have no control group (China, maybe, but they tend to prefer stealing tech to developing it) so these commies can act like it's working even as everything falls apart.
The fact anyone takes any area of academia seriously after it came to light that Mein Kampf can get through "muh peer review" with absolutely no consequences with that revelation, should be an indication that the lies are part of the intended design.
Not quite. Back in 2017/2018, Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose submitted an excerpt from Mein Kampf, rewritten in Feminist language, to be peer reviewed and posted as an article. Other article entries that were also accepted include such bastions of truth as "dogs also engage in rape culture" and "men can reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys".
If you want to know more about it, just look up "The Grievance Studies", which was their attempt at exposing the shit state of affairs that is the peer review system.
The two scientific papers I published were both horseshit and full of holes. One of them was paraded around by our professor because it supported his biases.
The key is that every study is observational. None of them study mechanisms, only correlations. High p-values are supposed to suggest causal relationships for future studies to uncover. But the media reports on the correlation as if it proves the cause, and the follow up studies are never done.
It's a technique used by leaders who want to stay in power. Whatever discovery there is will take out the need for them, so they block it. Medical care for example has had several technology revolutions thwarted to show doctors are the real heroes. It doesn't help that they're all in debt to a broken system as well. Now when it happens, the entire industry will crumble like the Shogunate against Commodore Perry.
As a former scientist who was working in Alzheimer’s research and knew that beta amyloid plaques were a red herring for years, no shit. Science has a replication issue, and an even worse data manipulation/fabrication issue.
My research was challenging the dogma of beta amyloid, and I was told in no uncertain terms when my grant proposal was denied that “challenging the dogma would lead to denial of funds”. Despite the fact that I had actual, real, genuine data pushing forward my hypothesis (and data that flat out showed beta amyloid doesn’t have a function some people claimed it did) I was still turned down. Academia and science in general has decayed, with very few real research projects being done. It saddens me deeply, and I hope one day after it is fixed I can return.
There’s a joke in medical research, you’re just one more outlier away from the right answer
FTFY
Bonus: Leading Science Journal Will Now Reject Inconvenient Scientific Truths "Nature demands that only science compatible with an ideologically fashionable worldview be published."
Can you please archive it so we can read it without signing up?
I updated the link with archive.is https://archive.ph/cxKcJ
Thanks man
The clotshot push should have spelt this out for most people in large crayon.
However, 'twas ever thus. Read Against Method by Paul Feyerabend. The idea of a 'pure' version of science ever existing, which was 100% empirically rigorous or ideologically uncontaminated, is a myth which both hamstrings the potential of science to uncover new truths and turns it into an unassailable monolith with too much power over mind and policy.
Just look at the fight it took to establish a link between H. Pylori and stomach ulcers:
Eventually resolved by one of the researchers simply consuming a beaker of the bacterium and giving himself an ulcer:
I'm sure the surgical interventionists and the companies selling antacids for stomach ulcers all those years were incredibly grateful for this breakthrough and had no influence on its difficulty in gaining acceptance /s
OH WAIT, I never actually knew the following part of the story before!
How eerily familiar!
Anyway, all that aside, I think the main thing that's changed in very recent years is the naked weaponisation of the force science wields over the modern secular mindset, in order to browbeat the masses with a new kind of shame-based liturgy. We beat it by directing shame right back.
Oh cool. So now we need to build parallel science, along with infrastructure and government...
The most fucked up part is that this was tried already in the Soviet Union, which collapsed, with the European and American as a control so we actually know that this is fucked, scientifically.
This time we have no control group (China, maybe, but they tend to prefer stealing tech to developing it) so these commies can act like it's working even as everything falls apart.
The fact anyone takes any area of academia seriously after it came to light that Mein Kampf can get through "muh peer review" with absolutely no consequences with that revelation, should be an indication that the lies are part of the intended design.
Mein Kampf was peer reviewed?
Not quite. Back in 2017/2018, Peter Boghossian, James A. Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose submitted an excerpt from Mein Kampf, rewritten in Feminist language, to be peer reviewed and posted as an article. Other article entries that were also accepted include such bastions of truth as "dogs also engage in rape culture" and "men can reduce their transphobia by anally penetrating themselves with sex toys".
If you want to know more about it, just look up "The Grievance Studies", which was their attempt at exposing the shit state of affairs that is the peer review system.
Look up the phrase "replication crisis" some time if you want to be shocked by how fake science has been for decades.
The two scientific papers I published were both horseshit and full of holes. One of them was paraded around by our professor because it supported his biases.
Academia ha been fucked for at least 10+ years.
The key is that every study is observational. None of them study mechanisms, only correlations. High p-values are supposed to suggest causal relationships for future studies to uncover. But the media reports on the correlation as if it proves the cause, and the follow up studies are never done.
It's a technique used by leaders who want to stay in power. Whatever discovery there is will take out the need for them, so they block it. Medical care for example has had several technology revolutions thwarted to show doctors are the real heroes. It doesn't help that they're all in debt to a broken system as well. Now when it happens, the entire industry will crumble like the Shogunate against Commodore Perry.