Academic Fraud

US Schools Report $6.5 Billion in Undisclosed Foreign Gifts and Contracts
— ET 2020 – ain’t no mountain high enough to keep me away from you, honey

How USA embraced research fraud
— For Better Science 2020

Research fraud: a long-term problem exacerbated by the clamour for research grants
— Taylor Francis 2020

Retraction Watch
— Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process

China’s ‘paper mills’ are grinding out fake research at alarming rate
— coda 2020

Measures to crack down on falsified work look good on paper, but critics say that enforcement will continue to be a problem
— Nature 2020

Rearch Fraud: How Journals Should Address It
— Enago 2020

Eight Fraudulent Cancer Research Studies Contained The Same Results
— Forbes 2020

Only a small fraction of research misconduct ever comes to light
— Undark 2020

Kevin Anderson rails against academic circle jerk auto asphyxia
— Resilence 2020

  • “The enthusiastic and almost unquestioning support by many academics for the net zero exemplifies how we’re prepared to forgo analysis and integrity to maintain politically-palatable fairy-tales of delivering on Paris.”

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them
– Orwell 1984

University Science is dividing into sects, like the early church
– James Lovelock

  • “I have felt for some time that the universities are getting dangerously like the early church. They have dozens of different sects and they are quite proud if you belong to one of them: if you are a chemist you often don’t know anything about biology and so on. This is why ordinary university science is not really helpful because the department looking at seaweed would not be the same as the one looking at methyl iodide. It is a division into bits. It’s time universities were revolutionised and had much more common thinking. It’s amazing how much objection there is to Gaia. I’m wondering to what extent you can put that down to the coal and oil industries who fought against any kind of message that would be bad for them.”

How Monsanto manipulates journalists and academics 
– Guardian 2019

Bayer bribed academics and scientists to hide neonic dangers to bees 
– The Intercept 2020

Harvard, Yale Took Hundreds Of Millions In Secret Foreign Donations 
– NPR 2020

DOE finds $6B in unreported foreign, donations to colleges 
– NY Post

Colleges and Universities Fail to Report Billions From China 
– USA NEWS 2020

Stanford renewable energy fraud 
– google 2020

College scandal is only part of the corruption 
– AP News 2019

The Corruption of Universities 
– Mark Bauerlein First Things 2020

How Corruption Puts Higher Education at Risk 
– E Journal 2014

College entrance fraud 
– google 2020

How corrupt is the US university system? 
– Quora 2019

Harvard Law School hires its First Woman of Colour in 1995, she was a native American named Elizabeth Warren
– google 2020

Bogus articles ignited an academic culture war
– Philadelphia Inquire 2018

  • I remember a Bret Weinsein story about French post-modern philosophers in the 1970s, who received a document from a renowned physicist who pranked them. He took all their, what Chomsky calls unintelligibly garbled reasoning, and he rearranged and regurgitated all their own words as a physicist blessing them with his endorsement. They forgot to verify and corroborate what the physicist wrote before publishing it. They looked like fools.

The 21st Century Sokal Affair ( a big deal )
– google 2020

1,500 scientists lift the lid on reproducibility –
– Nature 2016

  • 50% of researchers can’t reproduce their own results

Chinese mathematics rocked by fake academic paper scam 
– Sup China 2020

Is the Peer Review Process a Scam? 
– Enago Academy 2018

  • In 2005, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created a software program called SCIgen that randomly combined strings of words to generate fake computer science papers. The objective of the exercise was to prove that the peer review process was fundamentally flawed and the conferences and journals would accept meaningless papers. After being notified by other researchers who were tracking those SCIgen papers, journals were still quietly pulling articles as late as 2014.

Let’s end reviewer fraud 
– Publons 2018

107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud 
– Ars Technica 2017

Peer review: a flawed process at the heart of science 
– Google Scholar 2006

Why scientists need to do more about research fraud 
– Guardian 2018

Canadian researchers who commit scientific fraud are protected by privacy laws 
– Tor Star 2018

China cracks down after investigation finds massive peer-review fraud 
– Science Mag 2017

The Bottom of the Barrel of Science Fraud 
– Discover Mag 2017

Chinese courts call for death penalty for research fraud 
– PBS 2017

Peer-Review Fraud — Hacking the Scientific Publication Process 
– NEJM 2015

Fake Peer Review and Inappropriate Authorship Are Real Evils
– NCBI 2018

Scientific Fraud 
– Euro Scientist Journal

List of Known Science Research Fraud 
– Wiki 2020

Fraud and misconduct in clinical research: A concern
– NCBI 2013

Data fraud in clinical trials 
– NCBI 2015

The need for action in an era of academic fraud 
– UWN 2020

Articles on academic fraud 
– The Conversation 2019

The most famous psychological studies are often wrong, fraudulent, or outdated 
– Vox 2018

Scientist says Stanford Prison Experiment was a fraud 
– NY Post 2018

‘Fraud in the Lab’ Review: Experiments in Doubt 
– WSJ 2018

Do US White Mice Skewer Drug Studies? / Bret Weinstein 
– 18 mins YT 2020

Did The Big Bang Really Happen 
– google 2020

peer reviewed mathematics fraud 
– google 2020

Fake peer review
– google 2020

Physics fraud 
– google 2020

Colleges secretly taking money 
– google 2020

Bayer CropScience and Monsanto are criminal corporations 
– Guardian 2020

Editorial

The world has failed in every conceivable way for over 30 years, ask anyone in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Libya and Syria etc

The first Iraq war started about the same time as the first Earth Summit

The climate Conference Of Parties is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet

REAL CLIMATE JUSTICE = 100% PRIVATE GLOBAL CARBON UBI = 0% FOR GOVERNMENTS

Private carbon dividends were first proposed by James Hansen and several economists 10 years ago

The key to effective private dividends is a monthly rebate deposit to citizens only

Not to corporations or governments, that’s why both corporations and governments hate it, and why both capitalists and socialists hate it

  • 27 Nobel Prize winning economists support Hansen’s dividends
  • 3,589 U.S. Economists
  • 4 Former Chairs of the Federal Reserve
  • All 15 Former Chairs of the Council of Economic Advisers

Hansen said private monthly dividends would unite left and right to reduce emissions faster than any other way

IMO, this is humanity’s biggest failure and proof enough to me we’re over