Friday, February 09, 2024
Worse than Plagiarism: False Firstness Claims and Dismissive Literature Reviews By Richard P. Phelps
Worse than Plagiarism: False Firstness Claims and Dismissive Literature Reviews By Richard P. Phelps"...Of course, plagiarism is unethical—it misdirects credit for the work and misrepresents the accomplishments of the perpetrator.
But I will argue it is not the worst sin scholars commit in reference to the wider research literature, though it is more likely to be punished...
- With a dismissive literature review, an author declares at the outset of an article that previous research on the topic is either nonexistent or no good. Typically, no evidence supports the claim, such as where or how—or even if—the author looked for previous work.
- Authors making a firstness claim boldly declare themselves to be the first in history to study a particular topic—as in “this is the first study of …”
How can they get away with it?...
Fighting back!-----UCLA prof suspended after refusing lenient grading for black students demands $19 million-plus in damages | The College Fix
UCLA prof suspended after refusing lenient grading for black students demands $19 million-plus in damages | The College Fix"$19 million in damages in a lawsuit scheduled to go to trial March 4 in a Santa Monica courthouse...
- Klein’s attorney, Steve Goldberg, told The College Fix in a telephone interview this week the lion’s share of damages are based on the estimated loss of Klein’s expert witness practice income.
- “That practice went to ashes right after he was suspended,” said Goldberg with the law firm
- Markun, Zusman & Compton...
But his lawsuit alleges he made most of his money as a litigation expert...
Rep. Chip Roy inconveniences CNN host with the truth after she defends the so-called border bill: 'There would be 4,999' | Blaze Media
Rep. Chip Roy inconveniences CNN host with the truth after she defends the so-called border bill: 'There would be 4,999' | Blaze Media:
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) delivered a much-needed reality check on Monday to those defending the Senate's so-called border bill.
One of the most contentious provisions of the bill is the migrant "encounters" threshold for a border "shutdown." Critics of the bill say the border would never close if the bill becomes law while permitting countless more migrants to enter the U.S. The bill's defenders, however, say that is false.
Preaching hate...to what end?-----Why Is The Left Suddenly Talking About A ‘Coup’ At The Ballot Box? I & I Editorial Board
Why Is The Left Suddenly Talking About A ‘Coup’ At The Ballot Box? I & I Editorial Board"...But now that Trump is leading in polls, the left is talking ominously about a “coup.”
The Stop the Coup website says that: “The GOP plans to install a Day One Dictator and dismantle our democracy.”...
Pay attention, because if Trump wins in 2024, this will be how the left tries to stop him from getting anything done.
At a protest in Washington, D.C., a week ago – organized by a group that calls itself “Stop the Coup 2025” – Markus Batchelor, the national political director of People for the American Way, told the crowd that “Jan. 6 was just a dress rehearsal.”...
What is Batchelor saying?
At a protest in Washington, D.C., a week ago – organized by a group that calls itself “Stop the Coup 2025” – Markus Batchelor, the national political director of People for the American Way, told the crowd that “Jan. 6 was just a dress rehearsal.”...
- He went on to say that coups “don’t need weapons to succeed.”
- He said that “coups can be committed by pen and paper,” “coups can be committed at the ballot,” and “coups can be committed by seemingly democratic processes.”
What is Batchelor saying?
- That if Trump wins in November it will be the equivalent of a violent overthrow of government?
The Stop the Coup website says that: “The GOP plans to install a Day One Dictator and dismantle our democracy.”...
Study claims harms of COVID-19 vaccines 'profoundly outweighed' benefits; calls for moratorium on mRNA shots | Blaze Media
Study claims harms of COVID-19 vaccines 'profoundly outweighed' benefits; calls for moratorium on mRNA shots | Blaze Media:
A new peer-reviewed study in a Springer Nature Group journal has painted a damning picture of the global COVID-19 vaccination campaign along with the novel mRNA products at its core — vaccines millions of Americans were compelled to take if they wanted to keep their jobs, eat in public, stay in school, remain in uniform, or visit their loved ones.
According to the study, published on Jan. 24 in the PubMed-listed open access journal Cureus, standards were dropped, corners were cut, and red flags were missed in the testing, authorization, and ultimate deployment of the COVID-19 vaccines. The result: a product with an "unacceptable harm-to-reward ratio."
Erasing the southern border is about more than flooding voter rolls - Washington Times
Erasing the southern border is about more than flooding voter rolls - Washington Times - Robert Knight
But I submit that it’s even more sinister.
- There’s more than meets the eye to the Democrats’ erasure of the nation’s southern border.
But I submit that it’s even more sinister.
The aim is not to establish permanent, one-party Democratic power, although that’s crucial. The real goal is to end self-government once and for all. And the government doesn’t have to own the means of production, as in socialist and communist countries. It just has to have absolute control, telling companies what to do.We’ve seen how that worked in fascist Italy and Nazi Germany...
Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news | Hacking | The Guardian
Iran-backed hackers interrupt UAE TV streaming services with deepfake news | Hacking | The Guardian
The tech company said a hacking operation run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, a key branch of the Iranian armed forces, had disrupted streaming platforms in the UAE with an AI-generated news broadcast branded “For Humanity”...
- Microsoft analysts cite reports saying disruption by group known as Cotton Sandstorm also reached audiences in UK and Canada
The tech company said a hacking operation run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, a key branch of the Iranian armed forces, had disrupted streaming platforms in the UAE with an AI-generated news broadcast branded “For Humanity”...
Vote fraud?!!-----Challenged ballots hold up Sweetwaters union election results in Ann Arbor
Challenged ballots hold up Sweetwaters union election results in Ann Arbor JON KING
Of the 84 eligible voters, only 44 cast ballots, with employees voting 25 to 19 for union representation, according to records with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
However, there were 11 challenged ballots...
- Verification of a union vote by employees of Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea in Ann Arbor is being held up after some ballots were challenged.
Of the 84 eligible voters, only 44 cast ballots, with employees voting 25 to 19 for union representation, according to records with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).
However, there were 11 challenged ballots...
Biden Claims He Recently Met with World Leader Who Died in 1996
Biden Claims He Recently Met with World Leader Who Died in 1996:
When Joe Biden took the podium in Nevada over the weekend, he was supposed to be giving voters a reason to believe he deserved another term.
Instead, the first octogenarian president gave yet another reason he has no business being in the White House, garbling out a story about meeting with foreign leaders soon after taking office that included one who’s been dead for nearly three decades.
And he got the guy’s country wrong to boot.
Joe Biden is weaponising misinformation ahead of election - The Post
Joe Biden is weaponizing misinformation ahead of election - The Post"...Under Track F, the federal government is funneling tens of millions of dollars to elite universities for the study of AI-related misinformation and the development of potential solutions.
The NSF provided $38 million in misinformation-related funding from the start of Joe Biden’s presidency through to the end of 2022...
However, the details of the program should ring alarm bells.
- For example, according to the House Judiciary report, those with “vulnerabilities to disinformation methods” just happen to consist of core parts of the voting base of Biden’s political adversaries, including conservatives and veterans...
History for February 9
History for February 9 - On-This-Day.com
Bill Veeck 1914
- 1825 - The U.S. House of Representatives elected John Quincy Adams president. No candidate had received a majority of electoral votes.
- 1870 - The United States Weather Bureau was authorized by Congress. The bureau is officially known as the National Weather Service (NWS).
- 1895 - Volley Ball was invented by W.G. Morgan.
- 1942 - Daylight-saving "War Time" went into effect in the U.S.
- 1950 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that the State Department was riddled with Communists.
- 1969 - The Boeing 747 flew its inaugural flight.
Thursday, February 08, 2024
Grand jury: Government response to COVID really about one thing
Grand jury: Government response to COVID really about one thing:
A grand jury in Florida that reviewed the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic, which killed millions around the globe after it emerged from a Chinese lab experimenting on bat viruses, found it was all about "control."
"This first report from the grand jury only confirms what we knew from the beginning of the COVID crisis," explained Liberty Counsel chief Mat Staver, whose organization has battled the unconstitutional actions taken by the government against private and religious individuals and organizations because of COVID.
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