Re: Bicyclist decapitated

On Fri, 3 May 2024 09:54:03 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

On 5/3/2024 9:25 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:

On Fri, 3 May 2024 07:43:18 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
 

The IPCC has flooded the market for fantasy.

 
Not flooded, but getting there.  Apparently AI is being used to create
fake papers that look reasonable.
 
"AI Writes Scientific Papers That Sound Great but Aren’t Accurate"
<https://time.com/6695917/chatgpt-ai-scientific-study/>
 
For a time, papers suitable for retraction were identified by the
number or percentage of retracted references and citations found at
the bottom of each paper.  (Positive feedback).  I haven't searched
for retracted papers involving the IPCC.
 
"Identifying Retracted Journal Articles"
<https://mclibrary.duke.edu/about/blog/identifying-retracted-journal-articles>
"This database currently contains over 47,000 retracted articles
tagged with reason(s) for retraction..."
"Nature News reported that more than 10,000 research papers were
retracted in 2023."

Yes, outright fraud and/or ineptitude (un reproduceable
results) has become a plague among academic papers, some
subset of which are them withdrawn.  This is a widely  noted
problem and has resisted rectification.  One of a few
hundred current examples:
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00716-2

I left out the punch line. 
"Everybody lies, but that doesn't matter because nobody listens".

One fairly new feature of climate change is legislation intended to
solve environmental problems.  If anything, the poorly written
legislation has created more problems than it has solved.  The plastic
bag bans come to mind:

"How California's plastic bag ban made plastic waste worse"
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3CsO_A6UVo>
Incidentally, I save and reuse paper shopping bags.  I put check marks
on my bags to count how many times the bag was used.  11 times is my
highest number and 6 times is my average.  The problem is that the bag
handles are poorly glued to the bag.  Lift the bag by one handle and
the easily peels away from the bag.  When I quizzed a random
assortment of friends, they claim they would re-use the paper bags
more often if they would last longer.

That said, in the field of theology of climate religion (aka
The Greenies), no one planning for a career with government
grants is ever going to rock that boat.

Yep.  That happens at all government levels.  It's also a problem in
industry where nobody senior enough to consider company funded
retirement is going to make waves just before retirement.

Bottom line:  We're all doomed by our good intentions.

Gone for a trudge in the park.  This time, I checked if it's the right
day and time.


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