{"id":2023380,"date":"2023-09-06T13:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-the-way-science-should-work-scientist-bashes-academia-for-suppressing-anti-climate-change-narrative\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:06:12","slug":"thats-not-the-way-science-should-work-scientist-bashes-academia-for-suppressing-anti-climate-change-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-the-way-science-should-work-scientist-bashes-academia-for-suppressing-anti-climate-change-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist criticizes academia for stifling dissent on climate change."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthats-not-the-way-science-should-work-scientist-bashes-academia-for-suppressing-anti-climate-change-narrative%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023380&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Scientist&#8217;s Shocking \u2063Revelation: Sacrificing Truth for Publication<\/h2>\n<p>A top scientist recently \u2064made a\u200d startling confession, admitting that he deliberately \u2064omitted crucial information that contradicted the prevailing climate \u2063change narrative in order to \u2064secure the publication of his\u200c paper.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick T. Brown, an esteemed lecturer at\u200d Johns Hopkins University and a doctor of earth and climate sciences, boldly\u2063 titled his article, \u200d&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/i-overhyped-climate-change-to-get-published\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I Left Out the Full Truth to Get My Climate Change Paper Published<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I just got\u200c published in Nature because I stuck to \u2062a narrative I knew the editors would like,&#8221; he confessed\u200b in his article. &#8220;That&#8217;s not \u200bthe\u2062 way science should work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brown astutely \u2062observed that news articles about recent wildfires worldwide often attribute them solely to climate change.\u200c He theorized that the media \u200dperpetuates this narrative because &#8220;it fits a\u2064 simple storyline that rewards the person telling it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Citing his own paper, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-023-06444-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Climate\u2063 warming increases extreme daily wildfire growth risk in California<\/a>,&#8221; Brown \u2062admitted, &#8220;I \u2062knew <em>not<\/em> to try to quantify key aspects other than\u2064 climate change\u2062 in my research because it would dilute\u2062 the story that prestigious journals like <em>Nature<\/em> and its rival, <em>Science<\/em>, want to tell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The biases of the editors (and the reviewers\u2062 they call upon to evaluate submissions) exert a major influence on \u2063the collective\u200d output of entire fields,&#8221; Brown \u200bemphasized. &#8220;They select \u200dwhat gets published from a large pool of entries, and in \u200ddoing so, they also shape how \u2062research is conducted more\u2063 broadly. Savvy researchers tailor their studies to maximize the\u200c likelihood that their work is accepted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Key Strategies for Publication Success<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ignore practical adaptation measures.<\/li>\n<li>Overlook other factors that could contribute to wildfires, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elder-reflection-of-my-failed-campaign\/\" title=\"ELDER: Reflection Of My Failed Campaign\">poor forest management<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Disregard statistics that challenge\u200b the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-using-hurricane-ian-to-push-climate-politics\/\" title=\"CNN Using Hurricane Ian to Push Climate Politics\">climate change narrative<\/a>, like the fact that over 80 percent of wildfires in the US are caused by human activity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brown \u2063also \u2064revealed that using metrics that \u2062&#8221;will generate the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nbas-most-valuable-player-which-five-players-made-the-daily-wires-mvp-rankings\/\" title=\"NBA\u2019s \u2018Most Valuable Player\u2019: Which Five Players Made The Daily Wire\u2019s MVP Rankings?\">eye-popping numbers<\/a>&#8221; greatly increases the chances of getting a paper published.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Another way to get the kind of big numbers that will justify\u2064 the importance \u2062of your research\u2014and impress editors, reviewers, and the media\u2014is to always assess the \u2064magnitude of\u200c climate change over centuries, even\u200c if that timescale is irrelevant \u200cto the impact you are \u2062studying,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Reflecting on his own experiences, Brown shared, \u200b&#8221;When I began the research for this paper\u200b in 2020, I was a new assistant professor needing to maximize my prospects for a successful\u2064 career. When I had previously attempted to deviate from the formula, my papers were rejected out of hand by the editors of distinguished \u200djournals, and I had to settle for <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0239520\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">less prestigious outlets<\/a>. To put it another way, I sacrificed contributing the most valuable knowledge for society in order for the research to be compatible with the confirmation bias of the editors and reviewers of the journals I was targeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having left academia over \u2063a year ago, Brown concluded, &#8220;Climate scientists shouldn&#8217;t have to exile themselves from academia to publish the most useful versions of their\u2063 research. We need a\u200b culture change across academia and elite media that allows for a\u2063 much broader conversation on societal resilience to climate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He directed his plea to the media, urging \u2062them to stop accepting papers at face value and\u2062 to dig deeper into what may have been omitted. He also\u200b called \u200bon\u200b prominent \u200cjournal editors to \u200bexpand their focus beyond <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">greenhouse gas emissions reduction<\/a>. Finally, he encouraged researchers \u200bto stand up to editors or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/thats-not-the-way-science-should-work-scientist-bashes-academia-for-suppressing-anti-climate-change-narrative\/\" title=\"Scientist criticizes academia for stifling dissent on climate change.\">seek alternative publishing avenues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientist intentionally omitted crucial information contradicting the Left&#8217;s climate change narrative to ensure publication of his paper. Patrick T. Brown, an earth and climate sciences expert at Johns Hopkins University, admitted to this strategy in his article titled &#8220;Selective Truth for Publication.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2023381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}