I was reading an article about people who publish fake science for various reasons, but the end result is their "science" comes up in results from search engines. I realized we often fall prey to that fake science here on the forum. Someone will post a "scholarly article" and we are inclined to accept the science. In this new age we live in we can often get internet hits for our searches from non peer-reviewed journals. We all balk at having to pay for an article so we tend to gravitate towards the free stuff. Well, that is where the bad science comes into play.
Just like anyone can post a youtube video about refining and it is more fiction than fact, we see that often. True there are good video's as well but it is up to the viewer to pick out the good from the bad. Well apparently this is quite widespread in internet published journals as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/h...atedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
And we wonder why so many people are misinformed today?
Just like that now famous quote by Abe Lincoln, (made up of course) "You can't believe everything you read on the internet"
Just like anyone can post a youtube video about refining and it is more fiction than fact, we see that often. True there are good video's as well but it is up to the viewer to pick out the good from the bad. Well apparently this is quite widespread in internet published journals as well.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/h...atedCoverage®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
And we wonder why so many people are misinformed today?
Just like that now famous quote by Abe Lincoln, (made up of course) "You can't believe everything you read on the internet"