One of the most annoying things about "leadership development" classes: The amount of #JunkScience that instructors use to support whatever point they're trying to make. So I went down a rabbit hole to find the source of a particularly dubious claim I encountered yesterday. What was supposed to be a 1990s study from someone at U of Chicago turned out to be a 1957 dissertation from Wayne State. Somewhat amazingly, the diss has all the raw data (in a scanned pdf). https://education.wayne.edu/eer_dissertations/1958_clark.pdf
#JunkScience
Josh Hawley Introduces Law To Ban Mailing Of Abortion Pills, Citing #JunkScience Report https://www.huffpost.com/entry/josh-hawley-introduces-law-to-ban-mailing-of-abortion-pills-citing-junk-science-report_n_681b808ce4b01488b7bfa2a7 #Fascism #Missouri
'Coincidentally, the push for less onerous standards on supplements and psychedelics would come while Kennedy is demanding “gold-standard science” to review preservatives and other food additives that he has said could play a role in the country’s high rate of chronic diseases.'
https://undark.org/2025/03/04/supplement-industry-rfk/
#USpol #HHS #FDA #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #supplementIndustry #junkScience #MAHA #lobbies
"Dozens of studies have failed to find evidence of a link. The decision to re-examine the question comes as a #measles outbreak, driven by low vaccination rates, widens in Texas."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/health/vaccines-autism-cdc-rfk-jr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2U4.CpBb.l4ZKrfk_vYMi&smid=url-share
#USpol #RFKJr #TheRealRFKJr #BravoLesArtistes #JunkScience #kakistocracy #TrumpCabinet #antivaxxers #antivax #antivaxxersKill
The FBI Tried to Censor Forensics Experts Conference
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/fbi-academy-forensic-science-law-enforcement/
Oppose Trump's 'Junk Science Six' Nominees
We have no time to waste in opposing the worst of President Trump's Cabinet nominees with respect to science and the role it should play in keeping us safe. Urge your senators to vote NO on the 'Junk Science Six.'
#UCSUSA #JunkScience #Petition
https://secure.ucsusa.org/a/2025-oppose-trumps-junk-science-six-nominees
" ...flexible but hard and have the distinctive hyperbolic paraboloid topology of Pringles chips."
Physicists ecstatic the true curvature of the universe can now be determined, after investigators observing nature manage to find fragments of the famous space-time rubber sheet.
University of Borås: AI-fabricated “junk science” floods Google Scholar. “AI-generated research is a threat, both in terms of society’s knowledge and public trust in science. This was the conclusion made by the researchers behind the study that recently identified over a hundred suspected AI-generated articles in the Google Scholar search engine.”
Researchers planning to do #SystematicReviews must now plan to filter out the #JunkScience. That's difficult, time-consuming, error-prone, and demoralizing. It causes some researchers to drop their plans and forces others to move more slowly.
https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril
(#paywalled)
#Academia #LiteratureReviews #MetaResearch #MetaScience #ScholComm
@academicchatter
Science doesn't support a shaken baby conviction. An innocent man spent 23 years in prison because of it. #ShakenBabySyndrome #JunkScience
https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=6909
This is a terrifying system of pseudoscience. Interesting that a "DRE Instructor of the year" only got it right 50% of the time. #JunkScience #JusticeReform
New York PD Is Training Officers That Someone Saying ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Is Just ‘Excited Delirium’ | Techdirt
#JunkScience in #Trumpistan.
Propelled by tech money, the menace of race science is back – and it’s just as nonsensical as ever https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/17/tech-money-race-science-nonsensical?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Old-school snake oil bottle. But, it *was* 20 proof.
The epitome of #JunkScience. #FarmAnimals produce #carbon emissions at substantial rates. This cannot be in dispute. If we are going to #decarbonize then we must manage their populations, not look for #MagicBullets. Embracing a #PlantBasedDiet by all requires #farms to be more productive and sustainable. A balance of all factors is needed, not this #bullshit rhetoric.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/sep/28/cows-help-farms-capture-more-carbon-in-soil-study-shows?CMP=share_btn_url
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