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originally posted by: TerryMcGuire
a reply to: infolurker
Musk may be being taken down a peg at this time.
economictimes.indiatimes.com... 90857794.cms
The Vanguard Group, a monsterous investment corp that has been featured numerous times on AST threads concerning it's tentacle-like controls over much of our society has upped it's shares in Twitter and now controls more share than Musk.
originally posted by: The2Billies
Having taught Research Methods in a prominent Univ I can tell you that you can make any study prove what you want it to prove. It is quite easy to do with statistical manipulation, and/or sample size, and/or the population you choose to study. It is also well known in the Univ. universe that getting published in "respected" journals is a matter of "you review my study and say it is great, and I'll review your study and say it is great." Peer review is a joke, I've seen it first hand.
originally posted by: face23785
originally posted by: The2Billies
Having taught Research Methods in a prominent Univ I can tell you that you can make any study prove what you want it to prove. It is quite easy to do with statistical manipulation, and/or sample size, and/or the population you choose to study. It is also well known in the Univ. universe that getting published in "respected" journals is a matter of "you review my study and say it is great, and I'll review your study and say it is great." Peer review is a joke, I've seen it first hand.
I know it's been a few days, so not sure if you'll see this, but perhaps you could shed light on something else for me.
I've heard that the anonymity in the peer review system often doesn't work. The simple reason being that the prominent people in the field keep up pretty well with what research each other are doing. So when a study comes to you for peer review, even if it's anonymous, just by what research was done you can tell who did it. You can also recognize patterns in how different people write or what research methodologies they prefer.
What was your experience with that?
originally posted by: face23785
a reply to: The2Billies
I've always known it was a corrupt system. People freak out when you talk about science that way, but we're not actually talking about science. Science is a pure construct, and I love science.
Sadly, people screw it up.
And honestly none of this should come as a shock to anyone who reads science history. Scientists, especially revered experts in their field, have a long history of stubbornness, ignorance, ineptitude, and even corruption.
originally posted by: projectvxn
Mika Brzezinski is a highly paid but low skilled propagandist.
The honesty is refreshing, however.
The media, since the restrictions on domestic propaganda operations were lifted, have been assaulting the American mind relentlessly to elucidate emotional impulses whereby policy that has been waiting in darkness can be made law by whatever emergency is used to manipulate the public.
This isn't just done with fear. They do this with anger, love, resentment, and indifference. They act on your biological drivers. They act on your prejudices even as they condemn them in public.
They even managed to successfully use the working class as outrage shields during the pandemic.
Propaganda works and what they fear most is losing Twitter as a the world's most insidious propaganda trap.
originally posted by: infolurker
We don't want an Oligarch billionaire (who doesn't want to censor the stuff we want censored) taking over from our Oligarch billionaires who will censor what we want them to!
Seems this possible Twitter takeover scares the hell out them because it is THEIR JOB to control what people think. Yeah, they said it.
miamistandard.news...
None other than MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Mika Brzezinski said the following words in her out-loud voice...
"The dangerous edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts, and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsen, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think..."
And then the nail in the 'oops, I just told the truth coffin':
"...and that is our job."
To which the effervescent Joe Scarborough replies:
"Yeah".
Watch the full clip here:
twitter.com...
originally posted by: infolurker
We don't want an Oligarch billionaire (who doesn't want to censor the stuff we want censored) taking over from our Oligarch billionaires who will censor what we want them to!
Seems this possible Twitter takeover scares the hell out them because it is THEIR JOB to control what people think. Yeah, they said it.
miamistandard.news...
None other than MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Mika Brzezinski said the following words in her out-loud voice...
"The dangerous edges here are that he is trying to undermine the media, trying to make up his own facts, and it could be that while unemployment and the economy worsen, he could have undermined the messaging so much that he can actually control exactly what people think..."
And then the nail in the 'oops, I just told the truth coffin':
"...and that is our job."
To which the effervescent Joe Scarborough replies:
"Yeah".
Watch the full clip here:
twitter.com...