I have been brow beaten that peer review work studies and findings are the gold standard in science. Yet when I can present a peer reviewed study with heavy documentation and facts, that go against the liberal world view, it is summarily dismissed as baseless findings that dont mean anything. There has also been the 97% figure (a fallacy of authority) often will be thrown around about peer reviewed findings and research in climate science, the 97% report itself wasnt even peer reviewed up until recently. Once peer review was done (remember peer as in equally qualified) and the 97% was found not to be so, dismissal of such peer reviews roared out. I have since come to the conclusion that to many liberals, peer review is ok as long as the results are concurrent with the research results, that were in line with liberal group-think. Could such group think also happen within the peer review process? The answer, when researched, is yes - definitively. The authors also submitted different test studies to different peer-review boards. The methodology was identical, and the variable was that the purported findings either went for, or against, the liberal worldview (for example, one found evidence of discrimination against minority groups, and another found evidence of reverse discrimination against straight white males). Despite equal methodological strengths, the studies that went against the liberal worldview were criticized and rejected, and those that went with it were not. Who led this critical research? Jonathan Haidt. theweek/article/index/273736/how-academias-liberal-bias-is-killing-social-science
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 07:47:34 +0000
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