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Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
April 8th, 2014 - 8:20 am § in Science
$9,000,000,000 Finding Against Lilly and Takeda
Jury finds that diabetes drug, Actos, causes bladder cancer. Assuming that the data are correct, Actos increased the risk of bladder cancer by three fold. The other issue here, as in all such cases, is the question of why we use the vastly expensive and over burdened court system, with lawyers gone[...]
Knowsitall Award: James Watson on His 86th Birthday
Today we award the Knowsitall Award for Academic Arrogance to James Watson for his amazing success in taking credit for the work of Rosalind Franklin. There is a general misunderstanding about the Nobel Prize. The award os not given for the scientist, but for the discovery and only for a[...]
SUNDAY REVELAYIONS: Miracles do happen!
Amgen has announced miraculous results ,,, use of a virus to treat melanoma, among the deadliest types of cancer! If scientists accepted the mysterious authority of priests, great events would be seen as miracles. This may be one of those. All my life as a doctor, I have seen certain cance[...]
Are Robots Writing Papers? Embroidering Facts Leads to Pubication
Nature reports that computer-generated fake papers are flooding academia Jeremy Stribling, Dan Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn. three MIT graduate students created SCIgen, a computer program that writes academic papers. In 2005, they submitted one of the papers to a conference, and it was accepte[...]
VALENTINE’S DAY AND THE LOVER’S MOON
From: “Johnston, Gordon (NASA)” Subject: The Next Full Moon is on Valentine’s Day Date: February 11, 2014 7:28:00 PM PST The next full Moon will be on Friday evening, February 14, 2014, appearing “opposite” the Sun at 6:53 pm EST. The Moon will appear full for about 3[...]
BREAKING NEWS: The home of climate denial feels God’s wrath
The US Weather Service is predicting a msssive ice storm to cover the red states of the Confederacy. This sounds almost like biblical revenge for the sins of blaspheming against science. God or Science, the states that have denied the reality of climate change seem to be in for a raster of God&#[...]
How Commercial Interests Are Turning Scholarly Publishing Into A Racket
“The monopoly on information is increasingly an issue for the scientific community; an issue to which making journals open access seems to be the only solution.” I don’t want to write a long article about this; that’s already been done. See, e.g., the links below. To summariz[...]