most scientific papers are wrong?

I am sorry but I question your credibility here.

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I asked a simple question" When a neurotransmitter is attached to the receptor, the membrane fluidity around the receptor is decreased. If so, the complex must be floating. What holds the complex in place? He did not answer. I was punished for this. When you challenge the Ivory towers, your career is finished.

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Unless you left out a whole bunch of words here this makes no sense. Are you talking about the shift in membrane states from fluid state to gel state? Even in the fluid state protein complexes are anchored in the membrane via van der Waals interaction with fatty acids. This is pretty basic cell-mol stuff, I find it hard to believe it would have stumped Dr. Axelrod. I even find it harder to believe that anyone would consider this challenging the ivory tower or that this finished your career (unless there is a whole lot more to the story than you are saying)

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If I had a choice between a First grade BS(Bachelor of Science) and 3rd rate Ph.D, I would only hire the First Grade BS...There is no reason for you to become so angry at my remarks. If you are not aware of all these events, that does not mean that they do not exist. I am not discrediting the entire Scientific community. Thre are many brilliant men and women with Ph.D's and they are contributing a lot.

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In many years of school and research I have never heard anyone holding a PhD make the claim that they think the degree is worthless (you are arguing from the 'it's just a piece of paper' perspective). This makes me suspect you don't have one. Reminds me of a lab tech I worked around who would constatntly lure you into the "I know more about genetics than any of these guys around here..." argument. Would sneer at the prospect of actually going to grad school, seemed content just believing he was superior. It would be a rare BS recipient that I would believe has the knowledge to design, plan, and carry out a research program. I graduated summa cum laude and I knew NOTHING about how to do real research work until I was in grad school.You are disparaging the entire scientific community, whether your realize it or not. Give the numbers you claim this means that 75% of scientists are mediocre or worthless (btw, 15 + 60 + 15 = 90, hmmm). What this means is that my colleagues and I here are either mediocre or worthless OR (even worse) in the exceptional group but tolerate and/or turn a blind eye to the lying, cheating, thieving rest of them. I will state unequivocally that in my years as student and faculty I have met 1 PhD recipient that I didn't think deserved it, and they grew into the position after the fact.Now to the topic, you claim the 80% of scientific papers are not worth reading? I want to know by what standard you make that judgement. I would agree that there are flaws in many if not most papers. The vast majority of these are minor, even if major they rarely affect the conclusion. If they do, then they provide a springboard for more research. That is what science is all about. It is really wrong to make the claim that 80% of papers are that bad when I would be surprised if ANY of us read 1% of what is published every year. By your claim (true or not) that you are somehow a scientific insider you are trying to validate a totally incorrect statement.

I have supported all of my contentions. You are just too dishonest to admit it, imo.

1868-1998 equals 130 years. Isn't it strange how long evos passed fakes off as fact.Are they still doing it in papers today?I am not sure frankly. Maybe you can answer. I would hope with all the attention this has gotten in the past 30 years that evos have quit passing off these fakes and the false ideas associated with them as true, but then again, you'd have thought they would have stopped doing it in the 1800s, and it didn't stop'em.

I think I speak for almost everyone on this thread when I say that you don't appear to have been able to support any of your contentions. Most of your contentions are not even on-topic, but are just your standard accusations about evolution that you repeat in every thread regardless of topic.My suggestion to you is to stay focused on the topic, and to develop some criticism that has some substance. The nature of this medium frequently creates mistrust from disagreement. It is time you recognized this fact of online life. Keep your attention focused on the topic and not on the false impressions that debate at a discussion board creates. Besides, attacks on another member's honesty is against the Forum Guidelines.--Percy

You're the one who made the claim, in Message 39: I inquired about this claim assuming you were addressing the topic of this thread, namely scientific papers being wrong. What was I thinking!--Percy

No, I did not make that claim. I claimed evos used Haeckel for 130 years after being exposed as fraudulent, 1868-1998.You guys have yet come up with either an appropiate acknowledgement for such incredible error and fraud on the part of the evo community, nor an appropiate excuse for perpetuating such a fraud on the world.

I already explained that I interpreted your comment in the context of the thread's topic, and that I now understand that you were once again off-topic. This, too, is off-topic, it's just another copy of the Haeckel rant you repeat in every thread, regardless of the topic. This thread's topic is "most scientific papers are wrong?" Do you have an on-topic response to anything or to anyone?--Percy

How is it off-topic, percy? I suppose when you don't have a good answer, it's OT?I was asked the relevance of the OP, and one relevant point is that evos have tended to keep false data around, as Haeckel's forgeries illustrate. There is a tendency to rush to accept something that is published and print it widely and claim it is factual. We saw this with Pakicetus. We saw it with Neanderthals. Once in the textbooks and course curriculums, put there by evos, it tends to stay, and so myths are created.Most of the "icons" of evolution are myths created in this manner.This message has been edited by randman, 02-07-2006 02:25 PM

jar, is this a trick by you and percy. You ask for something, and then percy says it's off-topic if I respond.Kind of like Catch22?Evos tend to widely publicize initial findings and are very, very slow, if ever, to correct those findings. It took over 130 years with Haeckel. That's 130 years, hard fought, to get evos to back off false claims, and even then, plenty of evos as some around here refuse to admit to the full extent of the fraud. The Pakicetus errors are still around to a degree. It took 50 years, maybe more, with Neanderthals.It's called myth-making, and a large reason evolutionism should be considered as much a quasi-religious ideology or philosophy as real science.

You are, Randman, wrong about the Haekel issue. That is why bringing it up again and again is a waste of time.

Wrong on what point?1.Do you deny he faked his data?
2. Do you deny evos taught the Biogenetic law as factual even when it wasn't? and did so for a full 50 years after everyone in the field knew it was wrong?
3. Do you deny that recapitulation theory, also taught, is wrong?
4. How about the claims of the phylotypic stage, which was based on Haeckel's data according to Richardson in his 1997 study?Exactly how am I wrong on any of my claims relative to Haeckel?

You are wrong. That is all that one has to say to someone who never supports his claims nor answers critisms posted.This message has been edited by NosyNed, 02-07-2006 02:43 PM

No randman. You have not answered the question asked.Let me try to work through this with you.The question is "What problem exists with publishing findings even if wrong?"What is OT is your repetitious Haeckeling which has nothing to do with the issue.So let us go back to the quetion.Is it possible to question or challenge a finding that is not published?

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The more relevant question is how is it on-topic. The thread's topic is "most scientific papers are wrong?", but you seem to making the same argument you always make, which is that Haeckel's views were perpetuated in textbooks long after they were known to be false. Textbooks are not scientific papers, so how does this support your contention that most scientific papers are wrong?You're like the artist/teacher in The Prime of Miss Jean Brody who whatever model he used could only paint Jean Brody. No matter what the topic, you can only discuss Haeckel.If you want to present evidence that most scientific papers are wrong then please proceed. So far the evidence presented indicates that science is a very human and therefore imperfect endeavor that usually develops improved understandings over time.--Percy

Textbooks print what is accepted mainstream science which in turn stems from scientific papers and scientists. Richardson pointed out that the claims of a phylotypic stage seemed to be taken on faith, and that Haeckel was the largest and most relied on data to support that claim. So textbooks were merely reflecting the views of evo scientists.some reference material for you to check out MK Rich Ardson - MK Blog Rich