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[–] • 9 pts

For those thinking “TL:DR,” here’s the gist.

Apparently darker skin tones suggest more aggressive behavior in animals. Some people questioned if this might apply to humans as well. Their article has been deemed unfit for modern SOYANCE standards and redacted.

[–] • 11 pts

It’s all such bullshit. Academic papers are published in journals precisely so they can be challenged. The journal editors retracting papers long after their publication for almost any reason makes a mockery of the concept of academic journals. If there’s fraud or conflicts of interest with the authors then retractions can be justified, but it really should be a very last resort. But retractions have increased ten fold since the 1990s, and when we consider what’s really changed since the 1990s I don’t believe many would reach the conclusion that a massive increase in academic fraud has been a noticeable alteration. We really are living in the age of soyance.

[–] • 1 pt

Used to be science meant scrutiny and results driven evaluation of proposed theory by multiple others. Now, science means the first opinion I hear from anyone in the field with whom I already agree, scrutiny and verification discouraged.

[–] • 2 pts

Just search: "Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexualityin humans as they do in other animals"

I have it downloaded because, of course, this was inevitable.

[–] • 3 pts

i hope people keep a record of these retractions. no doubt nothing false gets retracted.

[–] • 2 pts

2012 - 2017 archives:

RETRACTED: Do pigmentation and the melanocortin system modulate aggression and sexuality in humans as they do in other animals? - ScienceDirect

https://archive.md/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886912000840

[–] • 1 pt

DOWNLOAD AND SAVE EVERYTHING!

OY VEY!

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video games cause aggression

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Agreed. Every time I would play PAC Man, I ended up beating my wife senseless. Music does it too. Every time she plays Michael Bolton on the Bose, I beat her senseless.......

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Oh yeah, because DNA works totally differently in humans than in any other DNA based life form.

Sure it does.

Humans are extra special that way.

You believe that right?

The stuff they don't want you to read is the stuff you probably need to read.

Notice how they do retain the link to the article at the bottom?

Some of them think you need to read it too.

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We should probably begin the process or archiving all scientific research so they cant Library of Alexandria it.

Despite the widespread modern belief that the Library of Alexandria was burned once and cataclysmically destroyed, the Library actually declined gradually over the course of several centuries. This decline began with the purging of intellectuals from Alexandria in 145 BC during the reign of Ptolemy VIII Physcon, which resulted in Aristarchus of Samothrace, the head librarian, resigning from his position and exiling himself to Cyprus. Many other scholars, including Dionysius Thrax and Apollodorus of Athens, fled to other cities, where they continued teaching and conducting scholarship. The Library, or part of its collection, was accidentally burned by Julius Caesar during his civil war in 48 BC, but it is unclear how much was actually destroyed and it seems to have either survived or been rebuilt shortly thereafter; the geographer Strabo mentions having visited the Mouseion in around 20 BC and the prodigious scholarly output of Didymus Chalcenterus in Alexandria from this period indicates that he had access to at least some of the Library's resources.

When society collapses he who has the archives shall triumph.

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We should start up our own research labs and conduct studies specifically on the subjects most find to be too controversial to touch.

We should peer review each other and studies done by the mainstream as well, just to show that we are doing actual good science.

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Won’t be published in any journals, thus won’t ever be cited, thus will never have any impact. It’s a closed shop, and those in power are exercising their power.

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We should do it anyway, make our own university, do science and education on more than just STEM related subjects, as science can be applied to anything, we can study history, art, and politics the same way, and we will do it for the love of truth, even if we are rejected, we do it purely for the love of discovery and teaching, and our students come to us purely for the love of learning.

Do this, and eventually we will gain more and more credibility for our honesty and integrity, for our love of science, which triumphs over the politics of it, to walk a difficult path of the outcast, being mocked and persecuted, yet ignoring the slings and arrows and carrying on regardless.

Scientists who are fed up with the politics that turned their noble pursuit of truth into a religion, will flock to us eventually, if we persist long enough, parents from our corner of the poliical landscape will send their children to us to get a quality education.

And they, who dominate the old corrupted world of science, will start to wane in influence, as their well known lack of integrity is deadly as soon as their monopoly is taken from them, everyone on the inside knows they are liars and cheats, the only thing holding most honest people in compliance is having no place else to go, give them somewhere to escape to, and they will defect to us.

This is how you win, this is how you achieve greatness, by doing what you can, fighting for what you love, even when it looks hopeless.

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It’s like you’re describing the foundation of the royal society, and the resistance those kind of ideas faced as they expanded into church controlled areas. You’re correct or course, but we did this 400 years ago. Another century or so before we rediscover the enlightenment at this rate.