For the last 60 years or so, science has been running an experiment on itself. The experimental design wasn’t great; there was no randomization and no control group. Nobody was in charge, exactly, and nobody was really taking consistent measurements. And yet it was the most massive experiment ever run, and it included every scientist on Earth.
Most of those folks didn’t even realize they were in an experiment. Many of them, including me, weren’t born when the experiment started. If we had noticed what was going on, maybe we would have demanded a basic level of scientific rigor. Maybe nobody objected because the hypothesis seemed so obviously true: science will be better off if we have someone check every paper and reject the ones that don’t pass muster. They called it “peer review.”
Harvard Physicist Discusses Sham Peer Review and Publication Process
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Re: Harvard Physicist Discusses Sham Peer Review and Publication Process
It would take a long discussion to go into the full meat of the article, but the overall message is pretty clear. Even though I could argue about a few points, they don't matter that much. Kind of like Gravity actually.... lol
interstellar filaments conducted electricity having currents as high as 10 thousand billion amperes
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"You know not what. .. Perhaps you no longer trust your feelings,." Michael Clarage
"Charge separation prevents the collapse of stars." Wal Thornhill
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Re: Harvard Physicist Discusses Sham Peer Review and Publication Process
It's another example of "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
The problem is no-one has been watching them, in research area after research area.
So now Big Science is basically dead as anything but a money making operation for those who control it.
And we are all suffering for that.
The problem is no-one has been watching them, in research area after research area.
So now Big Science is basically dead as anything but a money making operation for those who control it.
And we are all suffering for that.
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