Bad Science, Stupider Analysis

The Reference Frame

So the three authors have informed Nature and the Harvard Medical School and they have to check another suspicious paper co-written by Dr Mayack - who, of course, insists that everything was fine. Well, people may have been suspicious already when they saw the Peace T-shirt in January 2010. At the workplace, it doesn't really suggest that its carrier is an impartial scientist.

Whether you like it or not, science may lead you to conclude that a war is a better answer than the peace - or any other answer. Even the T-shirt only says 'Peace' and not 'Youthful Forever', it still shows that too many important answers may have been prepared in advance.

I read The Reference Frame because it often has some nifty commentary on physics and geeky me likes that a lot. Every now and then, ok at least weekly, there is a post that makes me shake my head due to the incredible stupidity that lies therein. This week's example is from an article on what appears to be academic fraud wherein the author is unsurprised that there has been fraud because the researcher wore a "Peace" t-shirt.