The epidemic of agenda-driven science by press release and falsification has reached crisis proportions.
In just the past week: Duke University admitted that its researchers had falsified or fabricated data that were used to get $113 million in EPA grants--and advance the agency's air pollution and "environmental justice" programs. A New England Journal of Medicine (NJEM) article and editorial claimed the same pollutants kill people--but blatantly ignored multiple studies demonstrating that there is no significant, evidence-based relationship between fine particulates and human illness or mortality.
In an even more outrageous case, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science's journal Science published an article whose authors violated multiple guidelines for scientific integrity. The article claimed two years of field studies in three countries show exposure to neonicotinoid pesticides reduces the ability of honeybees and wild bees to survive winters and establish new populations and hives the following year. Not only did the authors' own data contradict that assertion--they kept extensive data out of their analysis and incorporated only what supported their (pre-determined?) conclusions.
