Friday fun with Fumento!

Fumento lays it on real thick here.

Well, wake up guys, because the major science and medical journals have been fooling you for years. And what appeared to be a trickle when I first wrote on it in 1999 has become a torrent.

His basic point is that because some articles turn out to be wrong we should mistrust all peer-reviewed articles. Which is really based on a sound general guiding principle in a way: if scientists wouldn't doubt other's conclusions there'd be no progress in science. On the other hand, he's making the point that everything that could be in some way politically difficult for him to swallow must therefore be wrong.

Such was the case this month when Science killed a paper at the very last minute by respected British scientist Peter Lawrence. It criticized “the cult of political correctness” that insists men and women are born thinking alike. Editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy explained it didn’t “lead to a clear strategy about how to deal with the gender issue – as if Science hasn’t published countless papers on global warming with no strategy on how to deal with it.

Ah yes, we know the story well. We tried to get a paper published in Science once as well. It had to do with testing an old "Job" family trick to get rid of hickups. Take a look:

Introduction
Can you get rid of hickups by drinking a glass of water through a napkin?
Methods
Go to bar. Find hickupping drunks. Ask them to drink water through a napkin. Try not to get into a barfight.
Results:
Conclusions: Yup, it really works.

But in this climate of political correctness, going to bars where people smoke and drink was unacceptable to Science Magazine. Therefore I don't trust 'em on global warming either.