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Would it be more legitimate if it was the Washington Post? You would probably think so. Generating data to fit a narrative is certainly believable when a study
by lend000 10y ago
Would it be more legitimate if it was the Washington Post? You would probably think so.
Generating data to fit a narrative is certainly believable when a study doesn't bear the fruit you planned it to. I may be cynical, but I am not at all surprised that this is happening at the federal level, especially with something so politically charged. Researchers all over the world tweak data to fit their papers, which often present garbage that cannot be reproduced.
It's unfortunate that the government faked data to push a narrative, assuming this is true. Just another thing to shake our trust in the institution.
Obligatory: Yes, humans are rapidly changing the climate. That is not an excuse for scientific fraud.
- polotics 10y agowasn't this already debunked like yesterday when it came out of the National Review propagandahole?
- ratmice 10y agoat least they included a link to the independent paper replicating the results of the allegedly cooked data. Surprised me somewhat.
- DanBC 10y agoIn the UK some newspapers are forced by the industry regulator to issue corrections. The Daily Mail has, by far, the largest number of forced corrections. http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/12/man-who-hates-liberal-britain http://www.newstatesman.com/media/2013/12/man-who-hates-libe... > In the files of the Press Complaints Commission, you will find records of 687 complaints against the Mail which led either to a PCC adjudication or to a resolution negotiated, at least partially, after the PCC’s intervention. The number far exceeds that for any other British newspaper: the files show 394 complaints against the Sun, 221 against the Daily Telegraph, 115 against the Guardian. The complaints will serve as a charge sheet against the Mail and its editor. > This year, [2014] the Mail reported that disabled people are exempt from the bedroom tax; that asylum-seekers had “targeted” Scotland; that disabled babies were being euthanised under the Liverpool Care Pathway; that a Kenyan asylum-seeker had committed murders in his home country; that 878,000 recipients of Employment Support Allowance had stopped claiming “rather than face a fresh medical”; that a Portsmouth primary school had denied pupils water on the hottest day of the year because it was Ramadan; that wolves would soon return to Britain; that nearly half the electricity produced by windfarms was discarded. All these reports were false. And that's just stuff that's unambiguously wrong. Here's an example of the distorted way they report: https://jaimerhblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/raking-it-in/ https://jaimerhblog.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/raking-it-in/