Minors, Lewandowsky, and Ceremonial Ethics
PLOS ONE forced a correction, but Lewandowsky kept 14-17-year-olds without prior IRB consent. UWA’s retroactive ethics blessing is ceremonial, not ethical.
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On fraud
Scientific fraud is deception, not only fake cells in a freezer. False titles the authors’ own spreadsheet refutes meet standard falsification tests.
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To learn why skeptics think as they do, read their own accounts--not a blog survey that ties them to moon-hoax items almost none of them endorse.
Read Article →How one paleo-participant can change the outcome of a study
A 32,757-year-old in Lewandowsky’s PLOS ONE file erased real age correlations. Minors stayed in; authors knew for a year and still reported false results.
Read Article →Harms
Have you been harmed after being labeled a climate skeptic? The post asks whether Lewandowsky’s false hoax links leaked into work and dating.
Read Article →Data is often overrated
Invalid studies need no new data to be vacated. Logic can refute Napier & Jost and Lewandowsky; more numbers cannot rescue a validity collapse.
Read Article →More fraud
Lewandowsky claimed free-marketeers reject HIV and smoking science. Data show 95-96% agreement; correlations turned assent into “rejection.”
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