{"id":18302,"date":"2018-03-21T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T21:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18302"},"modified":"2024-06-29T04:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:25:56","slug":"scientific-bullshit-how-science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18302","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Bullshit \u2014 How \u2018Science\u2019 Is Used To Deceive The Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Scientific_Garbage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-18303\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Scientific_Garbage-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"Scientific_Garbage\" width=\"773\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDid you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found \u201cup to 72%\u201d of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in \u201cquestionable research practices,\u201d and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright \u201cfalsification\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the FDA found scientific flaws in 10\u201320% of all the studies they audited.<\/p>\n<p>But it gets even worse; scientists at the Thousand Oaks biotech firm Amgen, set out to double-check the results of 53 landmark published studies in their fields of cancer research and blood biology. What they found was shocking; only 6 of the 53 studies could be proven valid. That means almost 90% were flawed, yet passed off to the public as fact.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, there\u2019s a lot of scientific bullshit floating around my friends. An important point to bear in mind when you are looking for truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anewkindofhuman.com\/science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/anewkindofhuman.com\/science-is-used-to-deceive-the-public\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that there was a shocking study published in the Public Library of Science Journal, that found \u201cup to 72%\u201d of scientists admitted their colleagues were engaged in \u201cquestionable research practices,\u201d and that just over 14% of them were engaged in outright \u201cfalsification\u201d? If that\u2019s not bad enough, between 1977 and 1990 the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=18302\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientific Bullshit \u2014 How \u2018Science\u2019 Is Used To Deceive The Public&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51489,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18302\/revisions\/51489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}