Tuesday, 18 December, 2018

The Hi-Tech War On Science Fraud

The Hi-Tech War On Science Fraud

Posted on Saturday, 18 February, 2017Sunday, 20 August, 2017 by Zheluo Cai

The Hi-Tech War On Science Fraud.

This long read has a remarkably noble intent, yet highly controversial outworking; it also discusses some of the most publicised frauds in scientific research in history. Can a computer-generated human-crafted logarithmic programme fact-check satisfactorily scientific data, whether it is fake or manipulated results? Statcheck had been profiled in this article, but it is in its infancy in development and its use is limited to published psychological papers. Statisticians are figuring out more sophisticated ways and tools than just checking the veracity of mathematical and statistical calculations, at this moment. How can science research be policed, and by whom, remains an intractable topic. The pressure for academics to publish is overwhelming, and the number of science fraud, although small compared to the hundreds of thousands of papers published each year, only illustrate further the problem. Obviously, if public trust in scientific papers is to be preserved, then discrediting fraudulent research needs to be pursued to identify data manipulation before too much harm has been done. To date, the mode of such discovery mainly comes from fellow researchers and colleagues who are familiar with data outcome that appears too perfect or weird, but these exposures usually took years to surface for obvious reasons.

Read Article Here:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/high-tech-war-on-science

Vela Supernova Remnant.
Credit & Copyright: Marco Lorenzi (Star Echoes). At the northwestern edge of the constellation Vela (the Sails), the four frame mosaic is over 10 degrees wide, centred on the glowing filaments of the Vela Supernova Remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star. Light from the supernova explosion that created the Vela remnant reached Earth about 11,000 years ago. In addition to the shocked filaments of glowing gas, the cosmic catastrophe also left behind an incredibly dense, rotating stellar core, the Vela Pulsar. Some 800 light-years distant, the Vela remnant is likely embedded in a larger and older supernova remnant, the Gum Nebula.

December 18: The Moon passes 5° south of Uranus (image above), 4h UT (11 PM EST).

December 20: Jupiter passes 5° north of Antares, 2h UT (9 PM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 6° north of Antares, 8h UT (3 AM EST).

December 21: Mercury passes 0.9° north of Jupiter, 15h UT (10 AM EST).

December 21: Summer Solstice occurs at 22h23m UT (5:23 PM EST).

December 22: Full Moon occurs at 17h49m UT (12:49 AM EST).

December 24: The Moon is at perigee (361,061 km from Earth), 9h49m UT (4:49 AM EST).

Credit: Astronomy.

Sunflowers (Tournesols) is the name of two series of still life paintings by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh. The first series, executed in Paris in 1887, depicts the flowers lying on the ground, while the second set, executed a year later in Arles, shows a bouquet of sunflowers in a vase. In the artist's mind, both sets were linked by the name of his friend Paul Gauguin, who acquired two of the Paris versions. On March 30, 1987, Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, paid the equivalent of US $39,921,750 for van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London. The painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo.

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