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An investigation now reveals that as many as 20,000 published scientific papers each year are fraudulent. Remember the Nazis? They thought they were the Super Race because their brains were bigger and better than the rest of us. They proved it by trying to kill everyone on the planet who wasn’t a “pure” Aryan.
Writing in Nature, science journalist Colin Macilwain, discusses the shocking fact of how scientific misconduct has become a depressing reality.
“Considerable hard data have emerged on the scale of misconduct. A metastudy (D. Fanelli PLoS ONE 4, e5738; 2009) and a detailed screening of all images in papers accepted by The Journal of Cell Biology (M. Rossner The Scientist 20 (3), 24; 2006) each suggest that roughly 1% of published papers are fraudulent. That would be about 20,000 papers worldwide each year”.
HERE IS A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF FRAUDULENT “PSEUDO-SCIENCE”:
Macilwain writes, “Among some “connectomics” scholars, there is a grand theory: We are our connectomes. Our unique selves – the way we think, act, feel – is etched into the wiring of our brains. Unlike genomes, which never change, connectomes are forever being molded and remolded by life experience. A human connectome would be the most complicated map the world has ever seen. Yet it could be a reality before the end of the century, if not sooner, thanks to new technologies that “automate the process of seeing smaller,” as Sebastian Seung puts it in his new book, Connectome: How The Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are. How far should scientists go to find a way to become immortal? Hayworth looks at the growth of connectomics – especially advances in brain preservation, tissue imaging, and computer simulations of neural networks – and sees something else: a cure for death. In a new paper in the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, he argues that mind uploading is an enormous engineering challenge but one that can be accomplished without “radically new science and technologies.”
If you think that YOU and your memories are stored in a piece of meat called a brain, you have a lot bigger problems with your mind than can be solved in another 20,000 fraudulent “scientific” papers!
