Saidit is currently undergoing the largest DDOS attack we've ever had by magnora7 in SaidIt

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SHIELDS UP

Saidit.net - Updated visual appearance of the site by magnora7 in SaidIt

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Bless thee and thy offspring

Some stats about Saidit by magnora7 in SaidIt

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Bless our benevolent overlords, and this little corner of teh interwebs

'The worst': Gordon Ramsay slammed for 'cruel' stunt while filming in New Zealand by SierraKiloBravo in NewZealand

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Ol’ Gordo ruffled some vegan feathers methinks

Scientology is a cult. by Linuxuser in AskSaidIt

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Jehovah's Witnesses

"It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published ..." Marcia Angell by muellermeierschulz in quotes

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Kinda related, I listened to a great podcast today on Michael Shermer's Science Salon. The episode was called Science Fictions: How Fraud, Bias, Negligence, and Hype Undermine the Search for Truth.

I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Here is the episode description:

Science is how we understand the world. Yet failures in peer review and mistakes in statistics have rendered a shocking number of scientific studies useless - or, worse, badly misleading. Such errors have distorted our knowledge in fields as wide-ranging as medicine, physics, nutrition, education, genetics, economics, and the search for extraterrestrial life. As Science Fictions makes clear, the current system of research funding and publication not only fails to safeguard us from blunders but actively encourages bad science - with sometimes deadly consequences. Yet Science Fictions is far from a counsel of despair. Rather, it’s a defense of the scientific method against the pressures and perverse incentives that lead scientists to bend the rules. By illustrating the many ways that scientists go wrong, Ritchie gives us the knowledge we need to spot dubious research and points the way to reforms that could make science trustworthy once again.

Shermer and Ritchie also discuss:

  • Why we need to get science right because science deniers will pounce on such fraud, bias, negligence, and hype in science,
  • Daryl Bem’s ESP research and what was wrong with it,
  • “Psychological priming” and the problem of replication,
  • Sleep research and the problems in Matthew Walker’s book Why We Sleep,
  • Amy Cuddy and the problem with “Power Posture” research,
  • Andrew Wakefield and the biggest fraud in the history of science linking vaccines & autism,
  • Diet and nutrition research and the complication of linking saturated fats, unsaturated fats, cholesterol, and heart disease,
  • Phil Zimbardo‘s Stanford Prison Experiment,
  • Samuel Morton’s skulls showing racial differences in head size, Steve Gould’s critique, the critique of Gould, and the critique of the critics of Gould,
  • Self-plagiarism,
  • P values / p hacking
  • The Schizophrenia/amaloid cascade hypothesis and why it has been hard to prove,
  • The file-drawer problem,
  • How to detect fraud, and
  • Terror Management Theory and why it is almost certainly wrong.

Stuart Ritchie is a lecturer in the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King’s College London. His main research focus is human intelligence: how it relates to the brain, how much it’s affected by genetics, and how much it can be improved by factors such as education. He is a noted supporter of the Open Science movement, and has worked on tools to reform scientific practice and help scientists become more transparent when reporting their results.

The Cow is the Smartest One in this Story by Tarrock in MeanwhileOnReddit

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Every day I walk past a car in my local train station car park that has a sticker on the back window that says "Not your mom? Not your milk!"

Seth Meyers' new Netflix special lets you skip the Trump jokes by SierraKiloBravo in Television

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I'm assuming it just skips to the credits

Saidit suggestions/fixes? by idkwhatimseeking in SaidIt

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Being automatically subscribed to every single sub.

I do kind of agree with this one, from the perspective of being a sub owner - I would like to know how many people have chosen to follow the sub. With numbers in the thousands, I am fairly certain not all of then opted to follow (and the engagement / submissions would suggest the actual active subscribers is vastly smaller).

Criticisms and thoughts, (hopefully constructive). by Privacy_Advocate_ in SaidIt

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I found the lack of ability to upvote and downvote things weird to start with, but now I really take a moment to go "was this insightful? was this funny, or should it just be left alone?"

Saidit has turned into a thoughtless news aggregator by bobbobbybob in SaidIt

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When you make a link post there is no option to make any comment at submission time. Are you suggesting that when link posts are made the OP should also post a thread comment about why they posted it?

There are plenty of examples here and on the other site where the link alone generates conversations. Posting a comment to go along with a link could assist with this.

When you make a text post, there is a title section and a text section, so a title could go in the title part and the link and explainer could go in the text part.

I think automated removal is a bridge too far.

Influx of bots by [deleted] in SaidIt

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Thanks (I think). Coincidentally I decided yesterday to no longer post here because there seems to be little interest in original user created content. Since the last one or two influxes of users Reddit, the front page is a dumpster fire, and even innocuous sounding topics only take minutes to devolve into the same old arguments. I joined up around two years ago and I’m sad to say, it ain’t what it used to be.

The Dehumanizing Condescension of 'White Fragility' by SierraKiloBravo in books

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"When writers who are this sure of their convictions turn out to make a compelling case, it is genuinely exciting. This is sadly not one of those times, even though white guilt and politesse have apparently distracted many readers from the book’s numerous obvious flaws."