Why Fake Data When You Can Fake a Scientist? Making up names and CVs is one of the latest tricks to game scientific metrics That’s the headline on an article in Nautilus magazine, written by Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky. Here’s part of the article: …The fact is that professional advancement for scientists around the […]
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The senator whose method is: Make people LAUGH, NOT THINK
U.S. Senator Jeff Flake has appropriated and dismembered our basic goal and method, which is to make people LAUGH, and then THINK. The senator lopped off the “think” part, to produce his own basic goal and method: to make people Laugh, and NOT think. You can see this on display in Senator Flake’s recent colorful press release and booklet, which ridicules scientific research. We […]
We live in the Era of Billionaire-Scientifical-Superheroes
We are fortunate* to live in the Era of Billionaire-Scientifical-Superheroes. Here are recent press reports about a five of them. “Cure Baldness? Heal Arthritis? Erase Wrinkles? An Unknown Billionaire’s Quest To Reverse Aging [reported in Forbes magazine. the photo here is from that report] “$250 million, 300 scientists and 40 labs: Sean Parker’s revolutionary project to ‘solve’ […]
2015 in Hair (Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™)
Good news for scientists and people who appreciate hair – The 2015 Members Gallery of the Luxurious Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS) and its conjoined clubs has been released. Individual members are announced as they are inducted throughout the year, in the Improbable Blog (Hair Club section), and as each year closes they are […]