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Saturday, January 21, 2017

Are Science Journals Politically Biased? Editor-in-Chief of ACS Journal Refuses to Discuss Editorial Policy

By Alex Berezow — January 18, 2017

Science is one of the few institutions in America that has largely remained above the hyperpartisanship gripping our nation. However, there is a small but growing perception among Americans that scientists are becoming politically biased. Indeed, surveys have confirmed that Democrats vastly outnumber Republicans in academia. And, over the last few months, the behavior of high-profile scientific journals has only served to reconfirm these perceptions of bias.

Consider an editorial in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, a journal owned by the prestigious and highly regarded American Chemical Society. The piece, written by Prof Staci Simonich of Oregon State University, was titled "An Inconvenient Administration." She wrote that the incoming Trump Administration is "one of the potentially most challenging United States administrations to our scientific field in years" and that her colleagues are "already feeling threatened."......To Read More....

My Take - The fact is the "scientific community" needs to be abused, and most importantly - some of them need to be prosecuted for fraud.  That's what junk science is when they take the public's money and turn out predetermined conclusions - fraud!  Fraud is a crime!

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