Showing posts with label politicized science. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politicized science. Show all posts

Friday, September 19, 2025

The Achievement of Climate Science. Really!

Yes, but maybe too many of the involved scientists became religious and have self radicalized (like the prophets of doom) to continuously present the public with the greatest global hoax/scam of recent times.

How many climate scientists sell this scam for more research funding despite having doubts?

Fact is, we still understand very little about the very complex climate phenomenon, not to mention the changing solar activity of our sun etc.! Climate models are still largely junk, but these scientists heavily depend on and abuse it. A few decades of intense research and data collection is not enough to model climate change over millennia!

Caveat: I have not had the time to look more into this new series by Quanta magazine.

"For decades, many thousands of scientists have acted like sensors across the globe, collecting data from air, ice, sediment, ocean, cloud, flock, forest and more. Each dataset on its own says just a little about the broader climate. But when many researchers compile their insights into integrative climate models, Earth is revealed. Their collective work tells a profound and fascinating story of how rock and sky and water and life spin up Earth’s climate. It can help us not only appreciate the precious sliver of temperate conditions we occupy, but also make sense of the changes we’ve brought to a system both exquisitely sensitive and resilient. ..."

🌍 The Achievement of Climate Science "Climate science is the largest, most significant scientific collaboration in history."

When and how Nature journal spreads propaganda in one chart

Here is a nice example!

Nature Briefing: Cancer (Actually the whole issue of this news letter is mostly propaganda) E.g. "‘It will take decades to recover from this’" meaning from President Trump's alleged cuts to cancer research in the US. Really!

Socialists love to compare the US with Scandinavian countries. This has a long tradition! What is wrong with the chart below? A lot:
  1. Only two years are compared. Any honest scientist and science journalist knows that this is a deceptive practice.
  2. Using only percentage changes is another common deceptive practice. Why don't they show per capita results as well?
  3. What if the US has been so advanced by 2010 that Denmark was only able to catch up with the US by 2019?


Wednesday, May 14, 2025

The test kit allows people to collect their own vaginal samples. Really!

Very disturbing! The prestigious Nature journal still continues to call women people!

When ideology trumps science!

"FDA approves at-home Pap smear
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first home test for human papillomavirus (HPV), which can be prescribed via telemedicine. The test kit contains a specialized wand that allows people to collect their own vaginal samples. ..."

Nature Briefing: Translational Research

Thursday, August 29, 2024

Image of the day

Propaganda and demagoguery by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)! This is their latest advertisement for new membership!
Appalling!



Thursday, August 10, 2023

Equitable Science – Mapping diversity, equity, and bias in medical sciences. Really!

Do not mix science/medicine and ideology! Extremely disturbing!

One of the hottest, most abused and most controversial ideological terms of our time: equity/equitable! A term almost exclusively in the eye of the beholder!

PLOS has advertised this propaganda and demagoguery website (i.e. equitablescience.com) today!
The motto of PLOS is "Breaking boundaries. Empowering researchers. Opening Science [two ideology and indoctrination]."

Equitable Science – Mapping diversity, equity, and bias in medical sciences Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in medical sciences through data, discovery, and collaboration




Wednesday, July 12, 2023

All I got was a lousy T-shirt from the American Association for the Advancement of Science

It is pretty pathetic and disturbing what the once prestigious American Association for the Advancement of Science has to offer these days!
P.S. This offer from AAAS was in my email today.


Saturday, April 01, 2023

Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature. Really!

When ideology enters science! Who are these morons and crusaders! To erase history is dangerous and naiv! Again it is the once prestigious Nature journal that disseminates this propaganda and demagoguery!

"End the era of eponyms
It’s time to axe the practice of naming species after individuals, say 11 ecologists and biologists. They admit that “any call for exceptional changes in how we name nature requires an exceptional rationale”. But they argue that ‘eponyms’ burden the foundation of taxonomy with political baggage — especially the residue of colonialism. For example, more than 60% of the eponyms given to the flora of New Caledonia are named for French citizens (and 94% of them honour men)."

"The problematic nature of many eponyms reflects a much wider public discourse, with passionate debates about whether and how we should honour historical figures whose values, actions and/or beliefs are now incompatible with contemporary culture. ..."


Eponyms have no place in 21st-century biological nomenclature | Nature Ecology & Evolution We argue that naming species in honour of a specific person is unjustifiable and out of step with equality and representation. Reforming taxonomy to remove eponyms will not be easy but could bring multiple benefits for both conservation and society.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

Extreme events and gender-based violence: a mixed-methods systematic review. Really!

Another example of junk and politicized science this time published in Lancet!

These pseudoscientists only compare the most recent 20 year period with the one immediately before to make their claims! Absolute junk!

The University of Cambridge also featured this junk since:
Extreme weather and climate events likely to drive increase in gender-based violence

"As a result of climate change, the intensity, frequency, duration, timing, and spatial extent of extreme weather and climate events are changing.1 Between 2000 and 2019, floods, droughts, and storms alone have affected nearly 4 billion people worldwide, costing over 300 000 lives.2 The occurances of these extreme events represents a drastic change since the period 1980–99, with the frequency of floods increasing by 134%, storms by 40%, and droughts by 29%. ..."

From the abstract:
"The intensity and frequency of extreme weather and climate events are expected to increase due to anthropogenic climate change. This systematic review explores extreme events and their effect on gender-based violence (GBV) experienced by women, girls, and sexual and gender minorities. We searched ten databases until February, 2022. Grey literature was searched using the websites of key organisations working on GBV and Google. ... We identified 26 381 manuscripts. 41 studies were included exploring several types of extreme events (ie, storms, floods, droughts, heatwaves, and wildfires) and GBV (eg, sexual violence and harassment, physical violence, witch killing, early or forced marriage, and emotional violence). Studies were predominantly cross-sectional. Although most qualitative studies were of reasonable quality, most quantitative studies were of poor quality. Only one study included sexual and gender minorities. Most studies showed an increase in one or several GBV forms during or after extreme events, often related to economic instability, food insecurity, mental stress, disrupted infrastructure, increased exposure to men, tradition, and exacerbated gender inequality. These findings could have important implications for sexual-transformative and gender-transformative interventions, policies, and implementation. High-quality evidence from large, ethnographically diverse cohorts is essential to explore the effects and driving factors of GBV during and after extreme events."

Extreme events and gender-based violence: a mixed-methods systematic review - The Lancet Planetary Health (open access)

Friday, May 27, 2022

Scientists pretend We Know What The Problem Is with gun violence in the U.S.

This is as stupid as it gets! Look how a bunch of PhDs make fools out of themselves spreading propaganda and demagoguery!

More to the truth: The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is a left wing fringe outfit! They claim: "Science [journal] has been at the center of important scientific discovery since its founding in 1880—with seed money from Thomas Edison". Thomas Alva Edison is probably wildly spinning in his grave at this abuse of his name!

This is a preposterous and garbage piece of editorial published by the Science journal!

The Right to Bear Arms is a fundamental human right like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!

Most of the so called "civilized world" has no Second Amendment in their constitution either! Could it just be that these "other countries" also admit humans with serious mental health issues to treatment voluntary and involuntary if these humans pose a threat?

To compare the struggle to abolish slavery and for women's voting rights with the right to bear arms is pretty ludicrous and desperate!

"... Although opponents of sensible gun control—the kind that prevails throughout most of the civilized world—continue to put the spotlight on the shooters’ motivations or unstable mental states, these are cynical diversions from the one obvious truth: The common thread in all of the country’s revolting mass shootings is the absurdly easy access to guns. The science is clear: Restrictions work, and it’s likely that even more limitations would save thousands of lives. So why not take the laws much further, as other countries have done? ...
No doubt that mental health is a factor. But the rates of mental illness in the United States are similar to those in other countries where mass shootings rarely occur. ... the fallacy of blaming gun violence on mental illness in the wake of another mass shooting tragedy in 2019 ...
It’s also argued that gun ownership is guaranteed in the Bill of Rights by the Second Amendment. But a lot of things have changed since 1789, and there are many times when the American people have concluded that rights granted at the nation’s founding could not be reconciled with modern conditions and knowledge. It was decided that owning other human beings was not consistent with the founding principles of America. It was decided that prohibiting women from voting was not consistent with a representative democracy. And now it needs to be decided that unfettered gun ownership by American citizens is not consistent with a flourishing country where people can worship, shop, and be educated without fear. ...
Women’s suffrage, the end of slavery, and civil rights were not won without struggle. ...
The National Rifle Association and its minions must be defeated. ..."

Science Editorial: We know what the problem is

Wednesday, March 03, 2021

American Physical Society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record

The politicization of natural science goes on! This is insane! What's next?

Benjamin Franklin is spinning in his grave! It is time to boycott this society!

"... In November, the American Physical Society (APS) in College Park, Maryland, which has more than 55,000 members, announced that it will consider police conduct when choosing cities for future meetings.

The organization is so far unique among US scientific societies in taking this step, which comes after a renewed call from researchers to make scientific institutions more inclusive to individuals who identify as Black, Indigenous or people of colour (BIPOC) — a group under-represented in their ranks. ...
In 2016, the APS moved a 2018 division meeting out of Charlotte, North Carolina, after the state passed a law requiring people to use public restrooms according to the gender on their birth certificates. The society said the law posed a risk to transgender people, and instead held the meeting in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ..."

Major physics society won’t meet in cities with racist policing record The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies.

Wednesday, December 09, 2020

The Far-Reaching Impact of Dr. Timnit Gebru. Really!

The fawning over this cause celebrity researcher is building up! I blogged here about researchers trying to extort Google about her.

I hate to disappoint, but the total lifetime citation score of this so much celebrated researcher is only 2059 (Google Scholar (as of 12/8/2020)); or 1649 with 24 total publications (Microsoft Academic (as of 12/8/2020)). This is not very impressive!

"Few researchers make breakthrough contributions to even a single field. Fewer still can claim to have made breakthrough contributions to multiple fields. Dr. Timnit Gebru is one of those few. ...
Her impact goes far beyond her own research. She is one of the founders of the ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), one of the most prestigious and well-known conferences related to machine learning ethics. As co-founder of Black In AI, she helped increase the number of Black attendees at NeurIPS from just 6 in 2016 to 500 in 2017, a nearly 100-fold increase in just one year. ..."

The Far-Reaching Impact of Dr. Timnit Gebru Dr. Timnit Gebru's contributions range from circuit design at Apple to computer vision research at Stanford to her global leadership in AI Ethics



Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Researchers are starting to refuse to review Google AI papers

Science and politics are often mixed together and not to the benefit of former. Ideology often trumps science!

I do not know the exact details or circumstances about the employment or departure of Timnit Gebru by/from Google, but I have a hunch that this cause celebre researcher has been a zealous race/gender/diversity ideologue and militant! Her research paper seem to indicate that. In addition, she self proclaims/promotes permanent victimhood/victim mentality of herself: "people like me who are constantly dehumanized". 

Google AI/machine learning research is often top quality and cutting edge. Many of its research papers are excellent or seminal. Just take this famous paper as an example: Attention Is All You Need (published in 2017, citation count 13,592 as of 12/8/2020)
To extort Google in this manner is a shameful disservice to science!

Some well known researchers already have come out to engage in this refusal, e.g. Anima Anandkapur (California Institute of Technology and Nvidia)

Researchers are starting to refuse to review Google AI papers | VentureBeat Computer scientists in AI are beginning to refuse to review Google AI research until Google changes its stance on former AI ethics co-lead Timnit Gebru.



Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Simons Foundation Launches the Flatiron Institute Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy (IDEA) Scholar Program

The Simons Foundation and through its Flatiron Institute are also possessed by this propaganda and demagoguery of tribalism and the cult of racism! Shocking!

"The foundation regards diversity as having many dimensions, including but not limited to gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, race, faith, ethnicity, cultural heritage, disability and socioeconomic background. Visiting scholars can engage with any of these dimensions or suggest others."
I thought these were private individual matters that should not concern to or be taken into consideration by scientists or in their daily cooperation and research!

"Theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander will be one of the first IDEA scholars, beginning his tenure on September 1, 2020. Alexander is a professor of physics at Brown University and president of the National Society of Black Physicists."
A society of scientists formed along skin color? How racist is that! Is there such a thing as black physics?

Simons Foundation Launches the Flatiron Institute Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy (IDEA) Scholar Program The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the Flatiron Institute Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, Advocacy (IDEA) Scholar program. The program invites distinguished scientists with a particular interest in increasing diversity and improving equity and inclusion in the sciences 

US political crackdown spurs fears of Chinese brain-drain

Springer Nature disseminates propaganda not science! Springer Nature engages with disinformation on behalf of the Dimocrats in an important election year!

Springer Nature compiled here some ambiguous and very selective information in this article! They mix here e.g. intentionally Chinese scientists from China with scientists with Chinese background (U.S. citizens). The article contains more of such annoying sleight of hands!

"“There are certainly people leaving,” says Steven Chu, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist at Stanford University in California, who was secretary of energy under former [most socialist president since LBJ] US president Barack Obama."
Is this the same Steven Chu that signed the Nobel Laureates endorse Joe Biden endorsement (I blogged here about it)? I think so! Steven Chu is quoted about six times in this article much more than anyone else! Steven Chu is also the current president of the ideologically tainted  American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (I have blogged about it)

US political crackdown spurs fears of Chinese brain-drain An exodus of foreign-born scientists would be a great loss for US science, say research leaders.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Propaganda Cloaked As Science

Posted: 7/23/2015

Trigger

Just read once more one of those many popular science articles that have such alarming sounding headlines, i.e. Pesticides found in most pollen collected from foraging bees in Massachusetts.

Alarmism Exposed

This article does not mention a word about the exact level or quantity of toxins actually found. That is such an old, worn trick!