You have read me many times saying that at least 1/2 of :"Scientific Papers" are totally bogus.

Here is an example of one totally bogus paper that was written by 2 scientists to demonstrate that total i***tic nonsnse would be accepted and published by medical journals....

"The authors tell us: The paper was ridiculous by intention, essentially arguing that penises shouldn’t be thought of as male g*****l organs but as damaging social constructions…We assumed that if we were merely clear in our moral implications that maleness is intrinsically bad and that the penis is somehow at the root of it, we could get the paper published in a respectable journal.[15]

And they did. After completing the paper, and being unable to identify what it was actually about, it was deemed a success and ready for submission, which went ahead in April 2017. It was published the next month after some editorial feedback and additional tweaking. To illustrate how deliberately absurd the paper is, a quote is in order:
We conclude that penises are not best understood as the male sexual organ, or as a male reproductive organ, but instead as an enacted social construct that is both damaging and problematic for society and future generations… and is the conceptual driver behind much of c*****e c****e.[16]


In plain English, they (seemingly) argued here that a penis is not a male sexual organ but a social construct; the “conceptual penis” is problematic for “g****r (and reproductive) identity,” as well as being the “conceptual” driver of c*****e c****e. No, really. How this ever got published is something to ponder. The paper is filled with meaningless jargon, arrant nonsense, and references to f**e papers and authors.
As part of the h**x, none of the sources that were cited were even read by the h**xers. As Boghossian and Lindsay point out, it never should have been published. No one?—?not even Boghossian and Lindsay?—?knows what it is actually saying.
Almost a third of the sources cited in the original version of the paper point to f**e sources, such as created by Postmodern Generator, making mock of how absurdly easy it is to execute this kind of h**x, especially, the authors add, in “‘academic’ fields corrupted by postmodernism.”[17]

Another...

I can’t help but cringe when I hear people ask if a study has been “peer-reviewed.” The response this question most often deserves is simply, “Who cares?”

1. The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and f**grant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.?—?

Richard Horton, Offline: What is medicine’s 5 sigma? The Lancet, 11 April 2015, thelancet.com (Horton is editor of The Lancet
In the words of John Ionnidis, “Most scientific studies are wrong, and they are wrong because scientists are interested in funding and careers rather than t***h.”

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If most studies are wrong, and most scientists are more interested in their own careers and funding than getting at the t***h?—?while journals daily allow bogus and flawed pharmaceutical research to be published and promoted?—?then why would anyone in their right mind believe the claims made by doctors about the efficacy of products based upon “peer review” or pharmaceutical “studies”? What does a term like “safe and effective” even mean in this world of deception and subterfuge?

Returning specifically to the arena of (mainstream) medicine, a quote in PLoS Medicine, states:
1. “Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry”, wrote Richard Horton, editor of the Lancet, in March 2004. In the same year, Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, lambasted the industry for becoming “primarily a marketing machine” and co-opting “every institution that might stand in its way”…Jerry Kassirer, another former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, argues that the industry has deflected the moral compasses of many physicians, and the editors of PLoS Medicine have declared that they will not become “part of the cycle of dependency…between journals and the pharmaceutical industry”.[23]

The Spectacular Success of H**x Papers and Non-existent Authors

1. In April 2010, Cyril Labbé of Joseph Fourier University in Grenoble, France, used a computer program called SCIgen to create 102 f**e papers under the pseudonym of Ike Antkare. SCIgen was created in 2005 by researchers at MIT in Cambridge in order to demonstrate that conferences would accept such nonsense…as well as to amuse themselves.

Labbé added the bogus papers to the Google Scholar database, which boosted Ike Antkare’s h-index, a measure of published output, to 94?—?at the time, making Antkare the world’s 21st most highly cited scientist.[18]
So a non-existent scientist has achieved the distinction of being one of the world’s most highly cited authors?—?while “authoring” papers consisting of utter gibberish. Congratulations are certainly in order. In February 2014 it was reported that Springer and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), were removing over 120 such bogus papers from their subscription services after Labbe identified them using his own software.



You might want to read the whole article here:

https://www.newstarget.com/2018-02-19-science-is-broken-and-the-peer-review-process-produces-utter-bullst-parading-around-as-real-science.html

There is no question that there are pictures in which O's head seems to have scars, but I doubt it would be from "shrinking his head" to look more human. What would you do with the extra brain tissue that you would have to also "shrink"? It would be very strange to see someone with that kind of damage survive the operation.

I wonder if you would explain what you mean by 3 plates instead of 2. Could you explain please?

Thanks.

If you believe the MSM you might want to read this.... https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-18-18-school-shootings-in-2018-f**e-news-h**x-pushed-by-the-dishonest-left-wing-media.html

BTW, Ever wonder why school shootings and the like have been getting national press coverage as though it was a new problem. Why weren’t the school shootings that took place in past years publicized? I mean we have been having them, about the same number per year, as I understand it, since at least the 1940s.

Let me rethink that last post I made.

I made the mistake of thinking that this forum is here to give people a chance to learn by discussing political subjects, but of course it is not. This forum’s purpose is entertainment . And guys who pretend to be i***ts to start a silly pointless discussion are entertaining. We can all feel superior to and laugh at these King's Jesters as they chew on the scraps of left over sh't thrown to them by the Nobles.

So I take back my last post.

Do indeed have interplay with them and the ridiculous positions they pretend to believe and display. It is really hilarious!

Have at it with my blessings.

Choco is either an unenlightened fool or a shill for the guys who want to keep you politcally confused. His entire line of Bullsh't. is just that ...Bullsh't. And when you answer his crap you are helping spread h**e and fear, not knowledge.

So let's just forget his stuff and toss him aside and go on about our business.


I do get so saddened by the selfserving nonsense people vomit onto these strings.

And let's toss all the rest of these low I.Q. folks aside also.

Goof, since the beginning of living creatures there have always been some who lived better, ate better, lived longer, lived shorter, were taller, were shorter, were stronger, were weaker, were ens***ed, were free, were smarter, were dumber.

Heck this has always been so. Crying about those starving, freezing, being sick, etc. has never done any real good.

Take responsibility for yourself and your family, be the best you can be, protect yourself and your family from the predators as well as you can and try to make the best of your term on this prison planet, where every living thing has to struggle constantly, as long as we are here.

And don't do that bad stuff that got you sent here in the first place.

Inflation is simple to understand if you stop following the great unwashed/brainwashed herd and think a bit.

Let’s take an example anyone should be able to follow....

If the world contains only 10 apples and $10 dollars you might call the value of each one of the other.
In other words each apple is worth $1 and each $1 is worth one apple. The equation of $s and apples is 1 to 1. Neither is less or more valuable than the other. Understand?






Banks and the Federal reserve are allowed to “create” money out of thin air. The Fed uses a con game in which they “buy” Govt. Bonds with money they print up (or enter into a computer) giving the Govt. “Money” that doesn’t have any real existence. For this service the Govt. pledges to give them interest, (most of which is given back to the Govt. (But trillions are kept by the Fed.)

The banks are allowed to “create money” through the “magic of fractional reserve financing”. “Fractional reserve” means that when someone gives money into a bank account, (which means that the bank now “owns” your money) they, the bank lend it out at interest to a borrower. Say you put $100 into the bank’s hands, they can legally lend out up to 90% ( $90) and keep $10 “in reserve” just in case you ask for your money back

Now the borrower buys something with the $90 he borrowed, and the fellow who sold to him puts that $90 into the bank. Now the bank has that $90 of which they are allowed to lend out 90%, ($82). That means that your original $100 has now turned into $182, of which $ 82 has just been created out of nothing, except a book keeping entry, by the bank. (The bankers can do and do do this over and over putting more and more nonexistent money into circulation).

Now back to the apples and dollars example I led off with.

We still only have 10 apples.

If the bankers or Govt. create $10 more dollars as explained above, how much are 10 apples worth???

Well, we still only have 10 apples, but we now have $20.....

Now the equation stands at $20 to 10 apples. The apples now appear more valuable (though they really are just the same old apples) and the dollar becomes less valuable doesn’t it?


And that is why it takes more money to buy less of everything....INFLATION.

It is created by the Govt. And the bankers. Not by labor or greedy business owners or the Easter Rabbit. It allows those who create that extra money to have it and spend it before the public or business catches on, that the dollar has been cheapened.

It allows Legal counterfeiting by the Govt./ Banking Class.

At everybody’s (including you and me ) expense.

UNDERSTAND????

Leave it to Kev to be interested in a crap written about a hetrosexual.

Homosexuals (we used to use the better phrase “Q***RS” to refer to them) think they have something to gain by destroying a country that didn't openly demonstrate the dislike of them that moral people have, but let them "come out of the closet" and prance around. They think there must be millions more like them and think they can recruit more gays (what a mis-namer, the silly fools). Well we more or less left them alone as long as they weren't messing around with our kids. They mistook that to mean we approved of them. WRONG !

They also miss the point that many other countries don’t just dislike their negative , q***r influence, but actually have laws that call for them to be put to death. They ought to be scared, because when this country , which has put up with their ever more obscene shenanigans to some degree til now, collapses, the replacement govt. will almost certainly not allow them to live.

Being q***r makes for a q***r mind set.

Homosexuals (we used to use the better phrase “Q***RS” to refer to them) think they have something to gain by destroying a country that didn't openly demonstrate the dislike of them that moral people have, but let them "come out of the closet" and prance around. They think there must be millions more like them and think they can recruit more gays (what a mis-namer, the silly fools). Well we more or less left them alone as long as they weren't messing around with our kids. They mistook that to mean we approved of them. WRONG !

They also miss the point that many other countries don’t just dislike their negative , q***r influence, but actually have laws that call for them to be put to death. They ought to be scared, because when this country , which has put up with their ever more obscene shenanigans to some degree til now, collapses, the replacement govt. will almost certainly not allow them to live.

Being q***r makes for a q***r mind set.

Id, I can tell that you are not a KV (Korean War Veteran) or you would not pick General MacArthur (not Mac Carther ) to illustrate your point. His troops, including the Marines held him in great esteem. If he had not been held back by Truman we would have ended that conflict in the first few months. The “Frozen Chosan” was not Douglas' fault, although his Army people let us down by not keeping up during our attack north. That’s why we Marines always joked about the army wearing their track shoes so they could bug out. We did have winter gear.



"As Americans we need to wake-up and put more energy in our politics; instead of watching Dancing with the Stars!!!!! "

I think you are on something parralleling the right track with that statement, but how do you enforce the will of the people on politicians and fellow travelers who will k**l you but you are not allowed to defend yourself. It is now so bad that if you are an old man who carries a cane when walking and a bunch of punks try to rob you and you use the cane to defend yourself, the cops will arrest you for assault with a deadly weapon, and let the punks go. In fact the cops might well arrest you for simply having a cane, unless you can prove you need it to walk. (Yes it is illegal to carry anything they can call a weapon, including a pointed pencil, here in wonderful California.)In a society that is that perverted, I doubt that your "politics" will avail.

As far as I can see they, the pols control all the big bad weapons, including the news propaganda media, the educational systems both lower and higher learning to destroy our students ability to think straight.

As well as having the courts, well armed police, armies, govt. and parapolice agencies to do their bidding. They have thrown out the constitution, in fact all law including the laws against torture. They make up laws as they see fit and are totally ruthless.

You think political baaaing by the sheep will control the wolves?

I don't think so.

WE NEED SOME NEW THINKING AND THE COURAGE TO PUT IT TO USE. Or your future and the future of your heirs will be a concentration camp and s***ery.

Think (if you can) about it.

BTW, to answer one question...Why do people react to reality as they do, this little comic which has been posted on OPP before gives you the answer. Just follow it to the end (or you might believe that 4 + 1 = Tacos.

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe

Larry the Legend says...And it is worth repeating....

"You can scream it from the rooftops, they're not listening. I 'turned it off' in disgust over 20 years ago and don't miss it one iota. I just don't understand the attraction this carbunkle on the face of humanity has over its audience, but they most certainly do allow it right into their living rooms. Welcome it really, with open arms. They even laud these 'messengers of misinformation' with an almost religious reverence. It makes me sick to see it. They expose their young children to this indoctrination and those children grow up with it in the background all through their lives, telling them what to think, how to act, who to v**e for, you name it. These are the same people who will wonder aloud how it is that their government can be so publicly corrupt - and get away with it! Or worse, they won't even acknowledge it.

You point it out to them and you get this misdirection maneuver "Oh, yeah, well your (insert politician/policy here) is much worse!". See how that works? They deny what you said while pointing to an unrelated topic/person, thus diverting the topic in that direction instead. And most of the time they don't even know they're doing it because they've been indoctrinated from birth to think that way by that God-awful noise machine they call their television. In the meantime you're standing there with your mouth open wondering what just happened. Later on they'll tell their equally misinformed friends how they 'shut you up' with their superior logic and argument sk**ls and they'll all celebrate another 'victory' together.

So yeah, by all means, tell them all, 'turn it off!'. After a while you'll be just as jaded as I am. Not so much 'bitter and twisted', just very disappointed that the message never seems to get through. Maybe it is a form of 'mass hypnotism', I generally consider it brainwashing. Just like this 'two-party' e*******l system they promote. Ask any of them how many political parties exist in the United States and you'll get the same answer - Two. You mention the libertarian party of the Green party and you'll get a blank stare most of the time. Occasionally you'll get the dismissal 'yeah, but that just wasting your v**e'.

Show them this, and you'll get stunned silence, or total rabid denial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGL8CiUtXF0 "

At my house we turned it off years ago and have only missed the car races. The rest is just nonsense for fools to waste their time with, and brainwash them.

Try it. TURN IT OFF!!! If you are reasonably intelligent you'll like it....TURN IT OFF!!!!!

It will feel good to become sane.

Idsuttonjr says, “Life is like a chain...both strong and weak links! But in order to survive you must make decisions on the many uses for the chain!”

Now, how, if you have been brainwashed by people who want you to be bound by THEIR chains, and so indoctrinate you into a “make believe” world, are you ever going to break those chains unless you think rationally about it, and recognize what has been done to you?


“Now if you think your leaders brainwashed you into serving your Country in Korea?....Ask our many Founding Fathers and the 8000+ Korean MIAs who gave the supreme sacrifice!”

BTW, there were also about 40,000 KIAs (the supreme sacrifice), not just MIAs.

And who were these “leaders” who were ultimately responsible for brainwashing the young of both opposing armies who gave that “supreme sacrifice and how did they con those young men or force them by press ganging ( drafting ) them into “serving their country” by engaging in a conflict ½ a world away?

They were the same "leaders who got us into the Viet Nam debacle, and with the same lies and deceit.
And are still doing it with poor deluded "volunteers" like a friend's son who got in trouble and the judge told him if he joined the military he wouldn't be sent to jail.

And this too is a debacle that may be coming home to roost. You are showing just how well you have been hypnotized, my friend. I suggest that you "break your chains" and think fresh thoughts that are your own, not some propaganda you have been brainwashed with.