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These stories are both funny and serious, but set against a background of about 50% of health research never being published, about 50% of what gets published being riddled with bias, and an estimated 85% waste in research spending, the phrases "glass houses" and "throwing stones" spring to mind. cheers Douglas Source: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2016/01/14/paul-glasziou-and-iain-chalmers-is-85-of-health-research-really-wasted/ On 14/01/2019 11:55, Ash Paul wrote: > Dear Kev, > It came from a fascinating and long/heated twitter thread debating > whether Portland State Uni should sack Prof Peter Boghossian or not: > Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled academic > journals > <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-boghossian-professor-faces-sack-over-hoax-that-fooled-academic-journals-d2m7zdrsj> > > > > > > > > > Peter Boghossian: Professor faces sack over hoax that fooled > academic journals > > The leading academics Richard Dawkins and Steven Pinker have defended > a hoaxer who sought to expose politically correct “nonsense” in social > sciences. Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of... > > > > <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-boghossian-professor-faces-sack-over-hoax-that-fooled-academic-journals-d2m7zdrsj> > > > Regards, > Ash > > Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android > <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> > > On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 10:32, Kev Hopayian > <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Ash, > Would love to know what interested you in the paper. > > Sokal and Bricmont wrote a defence of science which applies to > EBP, free download > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/244321472_Defense_of_a_Modest_Scientific_Realism > <https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html> > Sokal famously submitted a nonsensical manuscript dressed up in > postmodernist language which was accepted by a postmodernist > journal, can be viewed here > https://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html > Kev > >> On 14 Jan 2019, at 06:44, Ash Paul >> <[log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote: >> >> I would welcome comments on this 2006 paper, which I saw recently >> on Twitter: >> https://t.co/14R0F40egz >> Regards, >> Ash >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android >> <https://go.onelink.me/107872968?pid=InProduct&c=Global_Internal_YGrowth_AndroidEmailSig__AndroidUsers&af_wl=ym&af_sub1=Internal&af_sub2=Global_YGrowth&af_sub3=EmailSignature> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> To unsubscribe from the EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH list, click the >> following link: >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH&A=1 >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH list, click the > following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH&A=1 > > -- Douglas Badenoch Director, Minervation Ltd ------------------------- T: +44 131 441 4699 M: +44 781 742 3262 www.minervation.com @DBadenoch ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=EVIDENCE-BASED-HEALTH&A=1