tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post7994985986653869556..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Don't Listen To Them, We're The Only Experts!Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-52983117781977530932014-03-27T23:18:39.332+00:002014-03-27T23:18:39.332+00:00heh... Monkey Florist Trofim Lysenko
The down...heh... Monkey Florist <a href="http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/anagram.cgi?anagram=Trofim+Lysenko+&t=1000&a=n" rel="nofollow">Trofim Lysenko</a> <br /><br /><br />The downward slide of academic standards and the miserable antics of egotistical "also ran" fantasists just keeps going ....moonrakinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-41094859660540340522014-03-27T11:33:15.151+00:002014-03-27T11:33:15.151+00:00Can it be just a coincidence that Stephan Lewandow...Can it be just a coincidence that Stephan Lewandowsky is an anagram of 'What Lysenko spawned'?<br /><br /><br />If I was a slightly unhinged Australian 'academic' I'd probably see a conspiracy there...SteveWnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-30453492702916010502014-03-26T14:29:01.581+00:002014-03-26T14:29:01.581+00:00Spot on analysis.Spot on analysis.Ed of Ballsworthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-6648558799358805102014-03-26T10:28:46.499+00:002014-03-26T10:28:46.499+00:00Agreed. Probably the best thing DP's ever writ...Agreed. Probably the best thing DP's ever written. Scalpel-sharp stuff.Pitkinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-76923688884374935042014-03-26T08:23:09.652+00:002014-03-26T08:23:09.652+00:00Ha! Excellent. :)Ha! Excellent. :)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-55723377000453385082014-03-26T08:22:16.290+00:002014-03-26T08:22:16.290+00:00Absurd, isn't it? How very dare they?!? ;)Absurd, isn't it? How very dare they?!? ;)Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-46088984880275855302014-03-26T05:09:51.653+00:002014-03-26T05:09:51.653+00:00Absolutely beautiful analysis Dick! I'd point...Absolutely beautiful analysis Dick! I'd point out the high points, but I'd basically just be copy/pasting your whole piece! Wonderfully done... a lot of work!<br /><br /><br />Peem: LOL! "He works for Casio!" heehee....<br /><br /><br /> :><br />MJMMichael J. McFaddenhttp://tobakkonacht.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-54053863801923410992014-03-26T02:47:27.420+00:002014-03-26T02:47:27.420+00:00........What the....noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-49416738862502840022014-03-26T01:21:53.105+00:002014-03-26T01:21:53.105+00:00Y'all probaly know about it but if you don'...Y'all probaly know about it but if you don't ... there's an academic chap recently arrived at Bristol University from the land down under who's a monumental shyster and then some. Said arse did some research fabricated a load of twaddle, published , got mugged by a bunch of people he mis-quoted / misrepresented,and got dobbed in for violation of academic ethics - <strong><i> investigated and exonerated himself </i><strong>and continues to spout epic quantities of toxic trash whilst lavishly funded by The Royal Society...<br /><br />Sheesh, where's the garlic, holy water, sharpened fence posts and silver bullets?<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bishop-hill.net/blog/2014/3/24/university-ethics.html" rel="nofollow">Stephen Lewindowski</a> Is it something in the West Country water?</strong></strong>moonrakinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-59182284026771852752014-03-26T01:18:05.366+00:002014-03-26T01:18:05.366+00:00“regulation should not ‘impose costs and obligatio...<em>“regulation should not ‘impose costs and obligations’ on business and <br />other groups ‘unless a robust and compelling case has been made.”</em><br /><br /><br />Crikey, what a concept, eh? Instead of taking people's money and forcing them to do stuff at your whim, you actually have to prove that there's some kind of <em>point</em> to it all? And the people you're ordering around and robbing imposing costs upon are actually allowed to say why they don't like it? Sheesh. Where will it all end? They'll be giving the buggers a vote next.Sam Duncannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-52846270570329305112014-03-26T00:35:03.839+00:002014-03-26T00:35:03.839+00:00Quite.
Interestingly, scrutiny of Anna's refe...Quite.<br /><br />Interestingly, scrutiny of Anna's references for the report show that Wikipedia is cited as a perfect source (aren't schoolchildren told that it's not?), while Anna also references her own work four times and Bath University's Tobacco Tactics site another three. <br /><br />So, in a report castigating others for saying that tobacco control is "inherently biased and self-interested" and that it "recycles" information, the report recycles information and is inherently biased and self-interested.<br /><br /><br /><br />You really couldn't make this shit up!Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-7724348700395114782014-03-26T00:25:39.498+00:002014-03-26T00:25:39.498+00:00- 2+2 = 5.
- No, it's not it's 4.
- No...- 2+2 = 5.<br /><br /><br />- No, it's not it's 4.<br /><br /><br />- No, it's 5. Our calculations were peer reviewed.<br /><br /><br />- I'm sorry, it's 4.<br /><br /><br />- Don't pay any attention to him he works for Casio, the calculator people.Peem Birrellnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-90216932117583926922014-03-26T00:25:07.594+00:002014-03-26T00:25:07.594+00:00‘the larger enterprise of creating new knowledge’
...‘the larger enterprise of creating new knowledge’<br /><br />Creating? I was under the impression that knowledge derived from the process of discovery not artifice. Freudian slip much?Mac McCubbinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-9288542356947541112014-03-26T00:00:12.778+00:002014-03-26T00:00:12.778+00:00Funny you should say that. Peer review is a straw ...Funny you should say that. Peer review is a straw they clutch at repeatedly throughout the report. Their evidence, you understand, has been read by their friends, whereas other evidence has not. <br /><br />So you have to have access to journals (which the public cannot and tobacco companies <a href="http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/the-bmj-discards-its-integrity.html" rel="nofollow">are not allowed</a>) and a gaggle of friends to check your spelling, or else you can't join in the debate?<br /><br /><br /><br />These people should be the ones ignored by politicians on the basic tenet of equality of access, let alone their rent-seeking distortion of what they also refer to throughout as "science".Dick_Puddlecotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-23020320017269174372014-03-25T23:43:00.823+00:002014-03-25T23:43:00.823+00:00When the validity of the views of one grant-soaked...When the validity of the views of one grant-soaked shyster are dependent on the support of other grant-soaked shysters, one has to wonder about the efficacy of the peer-review process.Entropynoreply@blogger.com