Reading this, I find myself thinking about something not yet explored in the OP, namely, if the insinuations of the OP are proven [that Yang fabricated or distorted the evidence - and when a fellow researcher asks to see the evidence but the request is refused things do start to look a bit suspicious] then what were the motives for Yang claiming that this was valid research?
Could he have some form of personal and negative experience relating to video gam
And it's a pretty obvious one given that he lives in a Communist dictatorship - politics. The CCP decides violent games and movies are bad, so they found a researcher and told him to write papers to justify their decision. The Party is always right, so it's the job of scientists to prove it. It is an inevitable result of Totalitarian systems like Communism/Socialism. In order to justify its total authority over everything, the Party promotes a facade of infallibility through any means available. Lysenk
But it opens the door to a couple of extra questions... First: how did this become more widely accepted if it was being pushed by the local regime? Second: isn't there a better way to be able to judge a paper by the quality of the peer review process?
Entirely happy to accept the premise of your reply, but doesn't that make it "shame on us" for glibly accepting the assertions when requests for the actual evidence were rejected?
Oh, and: why am I getting flashbacks to the Lenski Affair [rationalwiki.org]?
Absolutely shame on us for accepting bad science. Shame on the American researcher who put their name on a paper after not seeing the raw data.
It probably gained the traction it did for the same reason the Chinese regime pushed it - people wanted it to be true. Good ol' confirmation bias.
We should be very suspicious of Chinese research. It should not be trusted. Communists don't see science as a way of building knowledge, but as no more than a tool for enforcing their will. The results will alway
You can not get anything worthwhile done without raising a sweat.
-- The First Law Of Thermodynamics
Another Research Paper Required (Score:3)
Reading this, I find myself thinking about something not yet explored in the OP, namely, if the insinuations of the OP are proven [that Yang fabricated or distorted the evidence - and when a fellow researcher asks to see the evidence but the request is refused things do start to look a bit suspicious] then what were the motives for Yang claiming that this was valid research?
Could he have some form of personal and negative experience relating to video gam
Here's a possible motive (Score:2)
Re:Here's a possible motive (Score:2)
But it opens the door to a couple of extra questions... First: how did this become more widely accepted if it was being pushed by the local regime? Second: isn't there a better way to be able to judge a paper by the quality of the peer review process?
Entirely happy to accept the premise of your reply, but doesn't that make it "shame on us" for glibly accepting the assertions when requests for the actual evidence were rejected?
Oh, and: why am I getting flashbacks to the Lenski Affair [rationalwiki.org]?
Re: (Score:2)
It probably gained the traction it did for the same reason the Chinese regime pushed it - people wanted it to be true. Good ol' confirmation bias.
We should be very suspicious of Chinese research. It should not be trusted. Communists don't see science as a way of building knowledge, but as no more than a tool for enforcing their will. The results will alway