Another Flawed Anti-Fracking Study Gets Withdrawn
Researchers from the university retracted the study and admitted that correcting the errors “changes air concentrations significantly relative to those reported in the published article. This correction also changes some of the conclusions reported in the original article.”
But this wasn’t the only flaw found in the study.
The participants were biasedly recruited by the anti-fracking activist group, whereas they didn’t use random testing. The researchers also previously admitted the sample size was too small.
This is becoming a major problem in science today. We no longer have disinterested scientists studying data and going wherever the data leads them. Often these so called "scientists" are activists, or people promoting a cause. Often they preselect the data to favor their outcomes. Often they just make mistakes (this case was a bad use of measurement units). Peer review, if any, often consists of a circle jerk of such so called "researchers" giving blank approvals to each other. Gone are the days when people used to say, "That guy's an idiot. I'll prove him wrong. Wait, he's right. I'll publish my agreement."
Fracking Science and their Fracking Scientists.
