Archive: Peer Review, Amoebas, Self-Organization, Mars, Stomach Acid, Cholesterol, Junk DNA
November 22, 2024
Here are some of the stories we were reporting in late November 2001, restored from archives.
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Corrupt Big Science Needs to Clean House
June 27, 2024
The picture of institutional science as the paragon of objectivity is gone.
A Black PhD Who Suffered Scientific Racism by Evolutionists
January 9, 2024
This egregious case of discrimination showed academia's intolerance for black Christians.
Big Science Airs Its Dirty Laundry
August 31, 2023
All is not well in scientism. Big Science is as fallible as other institutions.
Peer Review Flaws Revealed by Massive Number of Retractions
October 19, 2022
Does peer review help ensure validity? A major scientific publisher is retracting over 500 peer-reviewed papers—and that's just for starters.
Peer Review Fails to Catch a Liar
January 10, 2022
Another scientist caught lying., and how it illustrates the shortcomings of peer review.
Peer Review Evolves Without Intelligent Design
September 20, 2021
Humans have brains, but they can do things that look downright Darwinian, as in "Darwin Awards."
Retraction Note: “Evolution of Religion” Study Pulled
July 11, 2021
Nature has egg on its face. Its peer-reviewed paper on the evolution of "moralizing gods" was found immoral.
Fraud Is Killing Science Publishing
March 27, 2021
Industrialized cheating is growing so fast, it's becoming hard to know what is real.
Retracted Papers Never Die
January 6, 2021
There's another case of zombie science in peer-reviewed publishing: retracted papers that don't stay dead.
Fallen, Fallen Is Big Science the Great (cont.)
August 30, 2020
Here are more angles from which to view the downfall of Big Science and its accomplice, Big Media.
Fake Spider Scares Experts
May 4, 2020
Yet Another Fake Fossil Published in a Peer-Reviewed Scientific Journal! What’s going on in paleontology? by Jerry Bergman, PhD The headline of a creation website announced in bold letters, “Fake spider fossil passes peer review!”[1] It then asked, “What lessons should be learnt?” The first lesson is, although the common claim, at least by […]
Scientists Are Only Fallible Humans
December 18, 2019
Recent news articles remind us to qualify our trust in scientists according to the human potential for error and bias.
Scientist, Heal Thyself
August 30, 2019
People who play "King's X" in the science lab had better be aware of their limitations and vulnerabilities.
Liberal Journal and Media Disparage Conservatives, but Censor Falsification
June 28, 2019
A widely-cited paper disparaging conservatives was falsified, but the journal refused to admit it or publish a retraction.