Not in the slightest. CNN had to settle a $200 million lawsuit out of court due to purposefully altering a video to try and destroy the life of a child due to that child holding a political view CNN does not agree with.

Blaming one side only when both sides are guilty is why we re in the mess we are today.

Be better

And don't forget the con artists who call people who speak for their god con artists.

And in the first point, I said “Assume….” Not that I believed the number. My point is that retractions are a tiny percentage of all papers published. Given the resources at hand, I didn’t think I could come up with an accurate number of the actual retractions in a relatively short period of time.

Incorrect. In 2021, the FBI stopped accepting submissions from the old collectiin system and only used the new collection system. That year, it lost roughly 30% of the data it normally received. The FabI itself said no trend could be reported due to this.

Anyone who used the data from 2021 forward would present false trends. As an example, the FBI later went back and gathered data about hate crimes from the old system and added that info and discovered they went up by 21% from 2020 to 2021 rather than going down like the incomplete data showed.

Police departments are still transitioning to the new system,so all trends report led are still using incomplete data. Any trends shown are useless and those reporting them know this. They also know most people do not.

Both sides of the aisle are taking advantage of this to sell lies.

EDIT: as an aside, it took me longer to type this post than it did to find the info contained in it.

Assuming a false premise creates a logically unsound argument.

That goes without saying. God, if he/she/it/they exist, created the entire universe and everyone and everything in it without one single monetary contribution. Imagine that! 🫠

Fruit ripe for the picking.

Everything is climate change according to the true believers. It's a cult.

I used to work for a well known "research hospital". They used to go around and "brag" about the fact that you could pretty much get the results you wanted from their research "based upon the extent of testing". As long as the grant money was sufficient, the test results would come out just fine. It wasn't even hidden and used as marketing for grant money/donations.

Nichols reporting on fraud is like Al Capone reporting on money laundering. Whenever he's questioned on anything, he runs, hides or deflects.

Oh, look! A family of cheetahs! 😃

It is said that, "the TREND is your FRIEND". Whether one data point about jobs is revised up or down is REALLY NOT important. What IS important is the TREND. The same is true when discussing US CRIME.The SAME FEW cities that do not report each time will NOT affect the TREND. Just look at a graph of the total US crime over TIME and see if the US is succeeding or failing to protect its citizens. I believe that crime per capita is FALLING today.

I fear you are being intentionally obtuse!

It sounds like North Minneapolis would be a terrible place to live. Makes you glad that you live in The Villages. They might need to form a residents association to patrol the streets or seek help from the State. Police are too important to ANY community to allow them to engage in "stand down" tactics.

LOL, no. If the previous data included ALL cities, and the you take out some cities, the trend is not real. You have to compare ALL cities in the baseline year to ALL cities in the comparison year to actually see the true trend. Which they didn't do.

And to make matters worse, the police aren't responding to as many calls or making as many arrests due to pressure from above. Then prosecutors aren't filing the same degree of charges on rare occasions when they actually prosecute. All leading to more fake comparisons over given time frames.

Sorry that my response about Minneapolis went to the wrong poster. As far as Global Warming goes we just had a Cat 4 hurricane hit Tallahassee. It set an all-time record for rapid intensification and the strongest ever to hit Tallahassee. This is because the Gulf waters are very HOT, maybe also an all time record for Sept. Global Warming is proved, not just by strong hurricanes, but by actual temperature measurement. They show increasing warming for the recent time period starting about 30 years ago and getting HOTTER worldwide each year. We are NOT out of the Hurricane Season yet. And next year will likely be even HOTTER.
.......There are 22 deaths attributed to Hurricane Helene as of right now.

Herein lies the issue. Everyone who questions the validity of a study or someone’s hypothesis needs to dig deeper, particularly if you’re going to use that information to make a decision for yourself. Some studies are flawed as many have pointed out here, but it takes time to figure out why. Evaluative thinking should be our own responsibility and it’s one of the reasons why we have the luxury of exercising our brains.

3 years later and they're still transitioning? LOL, believe any narrative you want, but people who live in cities are complaining it's not as safe.

Not true, the FBi stopped collecting data from the old reporting system in 2021. The cities not reporting are still using the old system.

The various police forces are only moving to the new system, slowing increasing the data used.

There is no valid trend data available from 2021 onward, not until they all start using the new system.

Google exists, you should try it. It took me longer to type this I do than it took me to find it.

This info is directly from the FBI itself, the same people gathering and then reporting the data.

It is easy to believe the many police districts in NYC aline are not yet transitioned, considering all the "define the police" cries there have been.

You choosing to not believe the truth is a you issue.

The trend is only a trend if comparable data points are used between time frames for measurement. See my post #97.

The rise in global temps would be happening regardless of human activity. The Milkanovitch Cycles show this clearly. We can expect more warming by nature alone.

As far as a "cult" goes it is those that deny science that are in a CULT.

When your science is politicized it is no longer valid. When your science is propped up by governments seeking new taxes it is no longer valid. When the media only reports science items favorable to the lie it is no longer exists.

And, as we see in this thread, when research papers are falsified to continue funding it is no longer valid.

No system is perfect and free from people that want to "play or USE" the system. But, if a system is well designed and tested for flaws, it can produce worthwhile results.

Oh no, they are going to scratch up the golf course.

"People who live in cities are claiming that it is not as safe". I could complain that in the street that I live at in The Villages - cars, trucks, and golf carts are going by at about DOUBLE the speed limit. Some golf carts are exceeding 30 MPH. I have NEVER, in over 10 years, seen a traffic stop by Police. About 30 % of the golf carts go by at 20 MPH and 70% exceed that.

Well in THAT case, we better ALL contact California and tell them NOT to bother requiring automobiles to be ELECTRIC after a certain year. It is those WASSKALLY Milkanovitchy twitchy cycles causing ALL our Global heating problems.........who knew ?????

Scientists go out of their way to NOT be affected by Politics. They are the most apolitical part of our society. As far as "governments seeking new taxes" goes it is hard for me to conceptualize ANY government NOT seeking new taxes. Should we still be taxing horse and buggies and NOT taxing automobiles because they are newer? Should we NEVER tax A.I. or Tik Tok because they are NEW?????
......I don't understand?

When those that don't like the outcome determine that science is politicized or propped up by governments or only selectively reported by the media they don't agree with, then you have a cult.

Science learns and grows. What was understood to be a treatment or a cure for a disease at one point may be later shown to have no real connection. Long term research into something like cancer will likely have reached many dead ends while pursuing what looked like promising results; that's just the way science works. Unfortunately, that doesn't meet the standards of the cult's skepticism and 20/20 hindsight.

it would be interesting to know how many of those papers flagged by AI or some other algorithm as having potential plagiarism or an objectionable email address or an international connection were 1. guilty of the accusation; and 2. inaccurate/wrong. While a plagiarized paper doesn't add to the body of science and never should have been published, its results may be just as accurate as the papers it copied.

Sorry, I was attempting to agree. Science is criticized when it doesn't come up with the right answer the first time and very quickly. It gets accused of being wrong, slow, biased, etc. However, the right answer the first time doesn't always happen and for no nefarious reasons. You had a good example with cancer research - better and closer all the time but not there yet.

And your point is what? Yes, some Villagers have their golf carts rigged to exceed 20mph. No one argues that fact, it's accepted. Feel free to complain. But just like that reality, crime is way up, but certain forces want you to believe otherwise, based on cooked data.

Also, math says that double the speed limit (20 mph) would be 40. But you say the speeders are going 30. More fake data. :rolleyes:

Not just false, but the opposite of reality.

Agree that Earth would be warming on its own, but not this quickly. It is human activity in total that has kicked the warming into overdrive. We can expect more warming, but it won't be by mother nature alone.

Retractions in Research
 

I take most "research" with a hand of salt bc their data is neither "valid nor reliable;" two terms that measure accurate (reliable and valid) data. I become most incensed when the research involves clinical/medical treatments bc patients' lives and their well being are affected.

Science is bunk! Bring back blood letting, leeches and voodoo! 👹👹👹 (I hope you realize this is a joke!

I was attempting to get golfing eagles mind back on his African trip. 😀😄☺️

What about the cars and trucks? 50+ on some stretches, particularly on BV and Morse Blvd. Let's just say that exceeding the speed limits by 50% is very common.

A statement exaggerated to make a point is simply that, an exaggerated statement. Not "data", real or fake. And not presented as data. Jmho. 🫠