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A Lot Of Published Science Research Is False

That's the thesis of a must-read article in First Things magazine, in which William A. Wilson accumulates evidence that a lot of published research is false. But that's not even the worst part.

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Climate Change is Unfalsifiable Woo-Woo Pseudoscience

Karl Popper famously said, “A theory that explains everything explains nothing.” So what do you make of the theory that catastrophic manmade CO2-driven “climate change” can account for harsher winters and lighter winters, more snow and less snow, droughts and floods, more hurricanes and less hurricanes, more rain and less rain, more malaria and less malaria, saltier seas and less salty seas, Antarctica ice melting and Antarctic ice gaining and dozens of other contradictions? Popper gave a name to “theories” like this: pseudoscience.

Stanford researchers uncover patterns in how scientists lie about their data

There is a fair amount of research dedicated to understanding the ways liars lie. Studies have shown that liars generally tend to express more negative emotion terms and use fewer first-person pronouns. Fraudulent financial reports typically display higher levels of linguistic obfuscation – phrasing that is meant to distract from or conceal the fake data – than accurate reports.

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Rapid, Puncture-Initiated Healing via Oxygen-Mediated Polymerization

Autonomously healing materials that utilize thiol–ene polymerization initiated by an environmentally borne reaction stimulus are demonstrated by puncturing trilayered panels, fabricated by sandwiching thiol–ene–trialkylborane resin formulations between solid polymer panels, with high velocity projectiles; as the reactive liquid layer flows into the entrance hole, contact with atmospheric oxygen initiates polymerization, converting the liquid into a solid plug. Using infrared spectroscopy, we find that formulated resins polymerize rapidly, forming a solid polymer within seconds of atmospheric contact. During high-velocity ballistics experiments, additional evidence for rapid polymerization is provided by high-speed video, demonstrating the immediate viscosity increase when the thiol–ene–trialkylborane resins contact atmospheric oxygen, and thermal imaging, where surface temperature measurements reveal the thiol–ene reaction exotherm, confirming polymerization begins immediately upon oxygen exposure. While other approaches for materials self-repair have utilized similar liquid-to-solid transitions, our approach permits the development of materials capable of sealing a breach within seconds, far faster than previously described methods.

Life expectancy climbs worldwide but people spend more years living with illness and disability

Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 as healthy life expectancy grows; ischemic heart disease, lower respiratory infections, and stroke cause the most health loss around the world.

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Related : “There's a gigantic loophole built into the experiment.  The assumption of linear superposition which brings along with it other assumptions -- entanglement, probability measure. None of these are observable.”

- Thomas Howard Ray

MIT claims to have found a “language universal” that ties all languages together

Well, there’s a new candidate for the elusive title of “language universal” according to a paper in this week’s issue of PNAS. All languages, the authors say, self-organise in such a way that related concepts stay as close together as possible within a sentence, making it easier to piece together the overall meaning.

Related : “So, more on topic, having reread the article to let it sink in, this sounds a bit like numerology: if you try hard enough and at a sufficiently abstract level, you're bound to find a characteristic that fits all languages. This might be why there are apparently many candidates for a "language universal" and why they're controversial.”  - daemonios

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Meet The Memcomputer: The Brain-Like Alternative to Quantum Computing

This computer works like the brain: It stores and processes info simultaneously.

Di Ventra's memcomputer sprung out of an easy-to-understand thought experiment from the 1970's. What if, like our brains, a computer stored data in the exact same place it crunched the numbers? And better yet, what if the actual process of crunching data was used as memory?

Individuals with social phobia have too much serotonin -- not too little

Previous studies have led researchers to believe that individuals with social anxiety disorder or social phobia have too low levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin. A new study, however, shows that the situation is exactly the opposite. Individuals with social phobia make too much serotonin. The more serotonin they produce, the more anxious they are in social situations.

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Timing Is Everything - DARPAtv Reminds American’s About EXACTO

Can life exist on a planet without a star?

Night vision eyedrops allow vision of up to 50m in darkness