#Researchers Get Ridiculous #Studies #Published in #Academic #Journals

Researchers Get Ridiculous (But Agenda-Friendly) Studies Published in Academic Journals

Researchers submitted ridiculous papers to peer-reviewed publications (including a feminist version of Mein Kampf) and got published. Why? Because the conclusions fit their agenda.

By Vigilant Citizen

A team of three self-declared “left-wing academics” sent 20 bogus articles peppered with agenda-friendly buzzwords to peer-reviewed publications. The result: Seven papers were accepted, four were published online and three were in process.

Led by Peter Boghossian, an assistant professor of philosophy at Portland State University, the team submitted “intentionally broken” papers to leading publications on race, gender, and sexuality. The goal was to prove that, if one used the correct language, pandered to the correct agenda and emphasized the correct buzzwords, one could get published in “serious” peer-reviewed journals. And it worked. A little too well.

For instance, one paper claimed to analyze rape culture in dog parks. Ridiculously entitled Human Reactions to Rape Culture and Queer Performativity in Urban Dog Parks in Portland, Oregon the

#European #Researchers #Warn the #World of the #Dangers of #Climate #Engineering

Illustration: http://www.climate-engineering.eu/

by Derrick Broze

(ANTIMEDIA) In a new report, a team of 14 different organizations in Germany, the U.K., Norway, France, and Austria concluded that efforts to geoengineer the climate are not without risk and not a substitute for reducing greenhouse emissions. 

The project “European Trans-disciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering” (EuTRACE) released their report, titled “Removing Greenhouse Gases from the Atmosphere and Reflecting Sunlight away from Earth,” which describes the limits and dangers of climate engineering schemes. Various methods for fighting climate