tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post7650740676350438013..comments2023-12-27T00:49:31.972-08:00Comments on Aether Wave Theory: Mainstream physics and Cargo Cult science.Zephirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-60439745697849203572010-11-07T07:39:55.134-08:002010-11-07T07:39:55.134-08:00The glorious mess of real scientific results<a href="http://www.badscience.net/2010/11/the-glorious-mess-of-real-scientific-results/" rel="nofollow">The glorious mess of real scientific results</a>Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-10936662466038286552010-11-01T11:22:34.298-07:002010-11-01T11:22:34.298-07:00Why Scientific Studies Are So Often Wrong: The St...Why Scientific Studies Are So Often Wrong: <a href="http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jul-aug/29-why-scientific-studies-often-wrong-streetlight-effect" rel="nofollow">The Streetlight Effect</a><br /><br />Many, and possibly most, scientists spend their careers looking for answers where the light is better rather than where the truth is more likely to lie..Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-61218187997179068522010-08-14T18:01:42.627-07:002010-08-14T18:01:42.627-07:00It is common practice among young astrophysicists ...It is common practice among young astrophysicists these days to invest research time conservatively in mainstream ideas that have already been explored extensively in the literature. This tendency is driven by peer pressure and job market prospects, and is occasionally encouraged by senior researchers. Although the same phenomenon existed in past decades, it is <a href="http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1008/1008.1586v1.pdf" rel="nofollow">alarmingly more prevalent today</a> because a growing fraction of observational and theoretical projects are pursued in large groups with rigid research agendas.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-48567753939876135432010-08-13T01:54:40.262-07:002010-08-13T01:54:40.262-07:00Is Academia Inhospitable to Big Discoveries? You c...<a href="http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/nature-brain-and-culture/201008/p-np-and-is-academia-inhospitable-big-discoveries" rel="nofollow">Is Academia Inhospitable to Big Discoveries</a>? You can't write a grant proposal whose aim is to make a theoretical breakthrough.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-15338703572084070502010-08-13T01:49:49.386-07:002010-08-13T01:49:49.386-07:00Scientists make all their data public immediately ...Scientists make all their data public <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/health/research/13alzheimer.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp" rel="nofollow">immediately</a> instead of hoarding it to advance their careers. It resulted into first meaningful progress on Alzheimer's in decades. It may become the new publishing model of Academia.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-22441543308076168882010-08-02T16:01:34.952-07:002010-08-02T16:01:34.952-07:00I can fully agree with it.
But it's all the co...I can fully agree with it.<br />But it's all the consequence, scientists are doing science for jobs, not for new finding in increased rate. If they're earning money with doing science, they need1<br />As the result, new articles are highly schematic and formal, they don't bring new ideas and/or findings - just a pile of void equations without physical meaning, which are soon covered with another layers of useless informational junk.<br />Faking it: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/290121.stm" rel="nofollow">Where science goes wrong</a>Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-28870518661558503102010-08-02T15:51:17.518-07:002010-08-02T15:51:17.518-07:00Backlash against multitasking: Are young scientist...Backlash against multitasking: <a href="http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2010/100729/full/nj7306-655a.html" rel="nofollow">Are young scientists <br />being asked to master too many 'soft skills' in addition to their research?</a> Scientists are increasingly asked to master skills in addition to their research. This is not necessarily a good thing, says Gene Russo.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-49661335206810626182010-07-24T14:11:46.009-07:002010-07-24T14:11:46.009-07:00Privatising the Peer Review Process?<a href="http://www.esajournals.org/doi/full/10.1890/0012-9623-91.3.325" rel="nofollow">Privatising the Peer Review Process?</a>Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-15964511267207848722010-07-07T16:53:55.036-07:002010-07-07T16:53:55.036-07:00What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t
The b...<a href="http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/" rel="nofollow">What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t</a><br /><br />The bias is definitively not that incompetent people think they’re better than competent people. Rather, it’s that incompetent people think they’re much better than they actually are. But they typically still don’t think they’re quite as good as people who, you know, actually are good.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-89360714021876951572010-07-07T16:48:22.120-07:002010-07-07T16:48:22.120-07:00Taylor & Francis has been testing CrossCheck f...Taylor & Francis <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100705/full/466167a.html" rel="nofollow">has been testing</a> CrossCheck for 6 months on submissions to three of its science journals. In one, 21 of 216 submissions, or almost 10%, had to be rejected because they contained plagiarism; in the second journal, that rate was 6%; and in the third, 13 of 56 of articles (23%) were rejected after testing, according to Rachael Lammey, a publishing manager at Taylor & Francis’s offices in Abingdon, UK.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-33322557962360397782010-07-03T07:53:33.404-07:002010-07-03T07:53:33.404-07:00When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people ...<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/03/confirmation-bias-scientific-evidence" rel="nofollow">When the scientific evidence is unwelcome, people try to reason it away.</a><br /><br />What do people do when confronted with scientific evidence that challenges their pre-existing view? Often they will try to ignore it, intimidate it, buy it off, sue it for libel or reason it away.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-17199028291266613212010-05-14T11:04:04.786-07:002010-05-14T11:04:04.786-07:00Biophysicist Stuart Lindsay:[i] "...the tru...Biophysicist <a href="http://asunews.asu.edu/20100507_nanotech" rel="nofollow">Stuart Lindsay</a>:[i] "...the truth about science is that most funding supports incremental advances, because the community will accept that they can do them. This means that the big breakthroughs are very difficult to support..".. [/i]Dense aether theory explains this way of information through human society to spreading of waves, which can penetrate only subtle gradients of density. If these gradients are more pronounced, then the refraction or even reflection will occur. Big ideas are often misinterpreted or politicized, or simply ignored or denied. We could even measure the importance of new ideas & findings by obstinacy, in which they're ignored or denied.<br /><br />Is "publish or perish" biasing science toward gradualism?<br />http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/is-publish-or-perish-biasing-science.arsZephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-88833676212835255692010-04-21T15:46:14.979-07:002010-04-21T15:46:14.979-07:00Is "publish or perish" biasing science?
...<a href="http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/04/is-publish-or-perish-biasing-science.ars" rel="nofollow">Is "publish or perish" biasing science?</a><br /><br />The authors of the new study proposed their own hypothesis on the publication of negative results: researchers in a competitive environment, who are most sensitive to the "publish or perish" mentality that prevails in the sciences, would be less likely to publish papers that describe negative results.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-64897184199009148462010-04-15T17:38:09.588-07:002010-04-15T17:38:09.588-07:00People are like dogs. Whenever they see new things...People are like dogs. Whenever they see new things or look at themselves in the mirror, a part of their reality comes unscrewed..<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3xdcx2WUcUZephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-24123968568950610222010-03-17T17:43:30.405-07:002010-03-17T17:43:30.405-07:00Science is not an economic problem - it's a so...<b><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/thesword/2010/03/science-is-not-an-economic-pro.html" rel="nofollow">Science is not an economic problem - it's a solution</a></b><br /><br />I believe too, the further existence of human civilization depends on progress in science. But the investments into science must be scientific, i.e. highly rational, too. We cannot spent all our money for research of Pluto planet just because it's interesting and possible - some priorities in research funding must exist here. For example the relative advance in collider research is the product of cold war and arm race and it's separated from real needs of society. So far, after fifty years of collider research we have no usage for any of hundreds of particle, prepared in colliders - so it's evident, the usefulness of such research will be quite limited in further fifty years, too. In particular cases, such too advanced research could even become dangerous for civilization, because of various supersymmetry effects..<br /><br />Whereas extremely important findings in cold fusion or room temperature superconductivity are simply overlooked for many years (compare the Arata's or J.F.Prins's research) - although we can find immediate usage for it! Such principal imbalance is what makes investments into science ineffective. Science is not supposed to be a salary generator for limited group of privileged scientists - it's purpose is to help the rest of society - or the society wouldn't help the scientists at the case of financial crisis.Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30708128.post-42639539629245402502010-02-04T01:32:20.137-08:002010-02-04T01:32:20.137-08:00Cargo Cult Scence by Donald Simanek:
"I was ...<a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm" rel="nofollow">Cargo Cult Scence</a> by <a href="http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/home.htm" rel="nofollow">Donald Simanek</a>:<br /><br />"<i>I was shocked to hear of an experiment done at the big accelerator at the National Accelerator Laboratory, where a person used deuterium. In order to compare his heavy hydrogen results to what might happen with light hydrogen" he had to use data from someone else's experiment on light hydrogen, which was done on different apparatus. When asked why, he said it was because he couldn't get time on the program (because there's so little time and it's such expensive apparatus) to do the experiment with light hydrogen on this apparatus because there wouldn't be any new result.</i>"Zephirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06010623752049244967noreply@blogger.com