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May 30, 2022Liked by Christopher Brunet

I have a PhD in medicinal chemistry and have published several papers using R code, and have a lot of background in bio informatics. I am the CSO of a small biotech.

I will happily do this on Tues when everyone is back to the office. I would also recommend getting in touch with retraction watch

https://retractionwatch.com/

Frauds like this really need to end in a scientists disgrace. Science is 100% about trust, anyone can jumble random numbers around to get significant p values, and prove any dumbass hypothesis they pull out of the woke-beast's multitude of buttholes. Poly sci is soft enough to have fucking straight up fabrication.

Even better, I'm white, my wife is black, our children our mixed, so I even have woke cred and the can't attack me for racism.

Every time I get CV from an ivy leaguer with no real world work experience, I throw it in the garbage where it belongs. The point of school is to learn how to think, not what to think.

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Here's hoping someone steps up. My guess though is that their next dodge will be "it has to be a PhD in the discipline." Then "it has to be a PhD in the discipline who's a subject matter expert in the relevant field."

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May 30, 2022Liked by Christopher Brunet

The real problem here is that you're a non-PhD taking down a PhD. It calls into question the value of a PhD, which I would submit is incredibly overrated in today's academic environment. It devalues everything these career academics have worked for.... therefore, they can't allow it. They need to save face and have the takedown submitted by a fellow PhD in order to preserve the prestige of the PhD class.

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May 30, 2022Liked by Christopher Brunet

I have a PhD. It makes nice round holes in the ground.

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May 30, 2022Liked by Christopher Brunet

My guess is the only way they take the case is if the PhD who steps forward is a person of color, recently unsure of his/her sex and praised for turning away from a recent past of racially motivated violence advocacy. Then and only then will the good professor be thoroughly examined resulting of course in finding missteps in his otherwise solid research. After much editorial consultation a stern warning will be issued backed up with a prominent display of an '*' with every reference to his alleged offending work.

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Science and academia being abused to support political agendas? Noooooo! Say it ain't so!

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So a PhD in Art History can file a complaint about the work product of a PhD in Quantum Physics? Got it.

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I am curious, why did the writers of the report submit that complaint to the journal to have the papers investigated and eventually retracted? It seems pretty open and shut to me. I think I am missing part of the story somewhere.

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I saw this posted on PSR. Who knows...maybe it will do some good to repost it here, but probably not:

"Karl, the foundation of modern conservatism is a belief in personal responsibility. If you want anyone serious to take you seriously you're simply going to have to put in the work. Screeching on your substack that someone else should do the work when all you have done so far is send some angry emails and copy and paste from psr and ejmr is frankly unbecoming. You can handle data, can't you? Get to work, show that the report is right by posting code and results anyone can easily run, and then you will be a hero. It is the only way."

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Nothing in this world makes more sense than “white flight.” It’s utterly rational.

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