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Nature Reviews Psychology, an imprint of the prestigious Nature publishing group, announced in October that it was “explicitly encouraging” authors to include a “citation diversity statement” in their articles. The statement would affirm that they had made an effort to cite from “a diverse group of researchers” and acknowledge “citation imbalances” based on race and gender.
“[R]esearchers can move scholarship away from narratives that perpetuate societal biases by writing inclusively,” an editorial in the journal read. “[W]e hope that encouraging authors to think about citation diversity will prompt them to engage in concerted and sustained efforts to educate themselves about the relevant work of underrepresented scholars.”
The policy was the last straw for the renowned chemist Anna Krylov, a professor at the University of Southern California and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, who wrote an open letter to Nature stating that she would no longer engage with the group’s journals.
Krylov grew up in the Soviet Union and has been warning about the politicization of science since 2021. MORE
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Did you hear that Thomas Massie has a new old lady?
He’s a quick one.
” a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences”
I was pretty young when I heard of that alliance. I can’t think of a worse alliance. Ones fact, the other fiction. Seems kind of stupid to me.
Nature Publishing Group is owned by Springer Nature, a German-British miscegenation. Springer and the companies that merged along the way to form it have totally fucked up the world of academic journal publishing. I hate them and what they’ve done. They’re in bed with and getting fucked in the ass by every progressive woke left-wing group you have ever heard of and 10 times more besides. Also doing the dirty with them are all the Pharma ghouls. They WILL. NOT. PUBLISH. anything that challenges “the narrative.”
Whenever you see reference to an article in a cacademic journal, before anything else check if it’s a Nature or Springer piece of used toilet paper. Use gloves and sanitizer.
@uncle Al
Scientific journalism has been publishing anti-Intelligent Design articles for a long time, refusing to acknowledge the science that backs up ID. One of the insults they used to hurl at ID scientists is that ID is nothing more than “Religion Dressed In a Cheap Tuxedo”.
I refuse to read any biology articles from any of their publications, unless its part of a rebuttal from more intelligent people.
A call to sit down, and shut up? While those that call you “enemy” keep Ownership(TM) of the boxcars?
It’s a plan, Anna.
I’m not saying it’s a good plan. But, it’s a plan.
What a crock of shit.
That is all.
This shit is shot through every last “study” and/or “report” throughout government. In my entire career I didn’t see a single one that adhered to the scientific method or even came close. They all started with a foreordained conclusion and back filled from there. The foreordained conclusion was frequently preposterous at best. The safest part is you have “engineers” who don’t have any concept of, much less a comprehensive understanding of, the theory. They sign off on stuff that a real engineer with a shred of integrity would never dream of signing off on. There are damn few of them left in government and the ones that I know of are being pushed out. It’s all bullshit at this point.
How the sorriest morphed into the safest is an enigma to me. If I ever met the one responsible for auto fill/correct in a dark alley the bastard is coming out horizontally and wearing a toe tag.
“Science journalism” across the web is similarly polluted with progressive crap in all areas. It seems we’re experiencing a whole generation of politically brainwashed science writers.
dei dindus
Can someone please tell me just how exactly that nature can inject ideology into science. Since nature is a non-sentient entity, it can’t inject ideology into science except thru the progressive ideology prevalent in a lot of so-called scientists who don’t believe in God or that God created nature. These scientists have lost their friggin minds trying to convince the gullible and manipulated masses that science and its perverted nonscientific ideologies that nature is greater than God. The knowledge of God and his creation (nature) is the beginning of wisdom none of which a lot of scientists believe and think that they know better than God.
I believe the crux of the problem of ‘woke science’ lies in the college/university realm, which Trump is attempting to fix.
One needs at least a master’s degree to be worthy of consideration for publishing your scientific paper. Being cooked in a stew of wokeness (aka: colleges/universities) for 6 to 12 years, or more, can do damage to just about anyone.
Springer/Nature is a hot mess and expensive as hell. And I honestly do not know what to do about them. They’re on the cusp of monopoly, but they’re so obscure it’s hard to think of an anti-trust case against them.
But make no mistake, the left has been working this front unopposed for a couple decades now. This is how we got the DSM 5.
KR