Are Consensus Science “Gold Standard Peer Reviews” Fraudulent BS Science?
“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 climate change.” [1-2]
The above is an ingenious spoof proving fraudulent ‘science’ actually is “peer reviewed” and published; it’s something that goes on in most, if not all, the sciences!
The male gender better secure and protect male genitals because, if pseudo-science is to be believed, males just may castrated and become eunuchs, especially if the penis is considered as contributing to climate change. Now wouldn’t that solve the population explosion?
Please pardon my literary license and tongue-in-cheek humor, but I just could not prevent myself from writing an “epilogue” to that ‘penis peer reviewed’ article.
Waking Times published a fascinating exposé titled “Why Scientific Peer Review Is A Sham” [2] by Brendan D. Murphy, which tears apart the peer review process as nothing short of BS science!
As Murphy states in his article,
Recently two scientists performed a brilliant Sokal-style hoax on the journal Cogent Social Sciences. Under the pen names “Jamie Lindsay” and “Peter Boyle,” and writing for the fictitious “Southeast Independent Social Research Group,” Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay wrote a deliberately absurd paper loosely composed in the style of “post-structuralist discursive gender theory” — what exactly that is they made no attempt to find out.
The authors tell us:
The paper was ridiculous by intention, essentially arguing that penises shouldn’t be thought of as male genital 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. [1]
Murphy goes on to say,
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 “gender (and reproductive) identity,” as well as being the “conceptual” driver of climate change. No, really. How this ever got published is something to ponder. The paper is filled with meaningless jargon, arrant nonsense, and references to fake papers and authors.
As part of the hoax, none of the sources that were cited were even read by the hoaxers. 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 fake sources, such as created by Postmodern Generator, making mock of how absurdly easy it is to execute this kind of hoax, especially, the authors add, in “‘academic’ fields corrupted by postmodernism.” [1]
Folks, this is serious stuff: fraudulent, peer-reviewed science becomes “consensus science” and there is no more flagrant violation of scientific and professional ethics than that which occurs within pharmacology, vaccinology and medicine!
Once healthcare consumers wake up to the boondoggle being pulled over on them under the guise of healthcare, preventive and prophylactic measures, the sooner consumers will become healthier and the costs of healthcare will tank!
Murphy goes on to quote numerous luminaries in the healthcare profession such as Dr. Marcia Angell.
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Marcia Angell is the former Editor-in-Chief at the New England Journal of Medicine, where she spent twenty years poring over scientific papers, saturated in the dubious practices that pervade the world of medical research. She states bluntly:
It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. [3]
Most “experts” in medicine are, psychologically speaking, simply engaged in well-paid groupthink and confirmation bias exercises, vigorously affirming and defending their ego’s (lucrative) construction of the world. To paraphrase physicist Max Planck, medicine, like science, “advances one funeral at a time.”
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And when was it not so?
During some mythical ‘golden age.’
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