Anti-Science Rules Academia — A Penn prof has found that almost all papers published by scientific journals are propaganda.
Only one-tenth of 1 percent of the published works conform to the scientific method says J. Scott Armstrong, a professor of Marketing at the Wharton School. He says the criteria is well established yet the works claiming to authoritatively reveal truths about nature blithely ignore them.
Why? Follow the money. Getting bucks in academia means telling those who control the grants what they want. Hence, bizarre claims ranging from sexual norms to falling skies are made by highly credentialed people causing policy to be emplaced impoverishing ourselves while enriching the connected.
Armstrong says there is a bright spot though. Public Library of Science One actually follows scientific principles and has become the largest journal based on papers published.
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“Hence, bizarre claims ranging from sexual norms to falling skies are made by highly credentialed people …”
It’s OK! I never read that stuff anyway.