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Post by Sons of Vaval on Jul 20, 2023 18:49:33 GMT -5
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Jul 20, 2023 19:04:24 GMT -5
Unfortunately, for too many people, the procedure is (1) draw your conclusion then (2) conduct research and manipulate or interpret the data to support your “gut” feeling
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Post by hcpride on Jul 20, 2023 21:41:36 GMT -5
/\ Or, he deliberately falsified data to gain fame (and fortune) and rode that fame to the Stanford presidency. And now he’s been caught.
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Post by alum on Jul 21, 2023 10:56:51 GMT -5
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Post by dadominate on Jul 27, 2023 6:29:35 GMT -5
research fraud is commonplace in even the most prestigious institutions. here's another recent instance of an esteemed harvard professor: behavioralscientist.org/harvard-professor-under-scrutiny-for-alleged-data-fraud/for the evidence-based medicine/"trust the science"TM crowd, the fraud is even greater in medical research. this is an informative article recently published in Nature (one of the top scientific journals) on fraud in clinical trials: www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02299-wthis is an outstanding summary article on the broken scientific process featuring commentary from john ioannidis (most published medical scientist in the world) and former editors of Lancet, BMJ, and JAMA Internal Medicine (some of the top medical journals). maryannedemasi.substack.com/p/are-medical-journals-dead?r=req52this quote sums it up from richard horton, editor of the lancet "Journals have devolved into information laundering operations for the pharmaceutical industry.” this has been going on for a long time. horton's quote was from 2004 and marcia angell, former editor in chief of the new england journal of medicine, wrote about it extensively in this book in 2003. i have recommended this to my medical students for many years and it should be required reading for anyone in medicine or anyone else who cares about their health. www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Drug-Companies-Deceive/dp/B000PWR0MY/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=marcia+angell+truth+about+drug+companies&sr=8-1perhaps one of the few bright spots of covid was that it woke up millions of people to the absolutely blatant corruption of the practice of medicine, government agencies (e.g. nih, cdc, fda), politicians, and mainstream media ("brought to you by pfizer"), by the pharmaceutical industry. to see so many people often violently turn against their neighbor during covid on behalf of pharmaceutical industry propaganda is something we should never, ever forget. |
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Post by td128 on Jul 27, 2023 7:19:53 GMT -5
Dadominate: GREAT POST!!
What you highlight here is a central element of the Public-Private-Philanthropic 'racket' that lines the pockets of the 'insiders' such as the intelligentsia at institutions such as Stanford (see more at Harvard, Columbia, Yale and many more including the University of Washington (BIG, TY to a non-doctor with the initials BG closely aligned to this institution).
Not often that frauds such as this get exposed.
The same sort of racket is run on Wall Street which primarily uses Columbia, UPenn (Wharton), University of Chicago and a few others as their 'go to' institutions to write 'research' that is nothing more than COVER.
This all encompassing dynamic defined as regulatory capture is absolutely killing our nation and the world at large. I greatly appreciate and hugely respect your providing specific receipts for those who want to learn more. Well done my fellow Crusader. VERY well done.
Transparency remains the GREAT disinfectant and TRUTH remains a virtuous pursuit.
God willing -- and I am confident everybody here would agree -- that more of these frauds get exposed so that our society here in our nation and globally can be restored. These fights and efforts are most worthy.
LET'S WIN!!
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Post by alum on Jul 27, 2023 10:04:09 GMT -5
Pot meet kettle.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 28, 2023 18:47:10 GMT -5
Speaking of Stanford, they seem to be a school holding the bag in all this conference shuffling.
They're good in just about everything except, right now; the two big ones. Can't believe they're not wanted.
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Aug 7, 2023 11:31:41 GMT -5
Speaking of Stanford, they seem to be a school holding the bag in all this conference shuffling. They're good in just about everything except, right now; the two big ones. Can't believe they're not wanted. Odds on where Stanford and Cal will end up IMO: Big 12: 60% Big Ten: 30% ACC: 10% Big 12 could use a CA footprint. Wouldn't surprise me to see them add these 2 and San Diego St to obtain footprints in NorCal and SoCal. Only way Big Ten takes them is if they want the acadmeic clout. ACC would be funny. Pacific coast schools in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference. But perhaps Notre Dame would have interest in pushing the issue on their behalf...if ND doesn't see blood in the water and look to soon backtrack from their ACC membership and football scheduling agreement. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 7, 2023 23:56:38 GMT -5
ND is cheek and jowl with the Big Ten geographically. There must be a story about why they aren't in it. Did they have their own Father Brooks who turned down an invite, or were they just too Catholic? Or could they always make more money being a national independent with subway alums in every city big enough to have a subway?
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Post by KY Crusader 75 on Aug 8, 2023 7:47:14 GMT -5
ND is cheek and jowl with the Big Ten geographically. There must be a story about why they aren't in it. Did they have their own Father Brooks who turned down an invite, or were they just too Catholic? Or could they always make more money being a national independent with subway alums in every city big enough to have a subway? Notre Dame has had its own television contract since the days of just three networks. I believe every game was televised and Notre Dame, being an independent, did not have to share revenue with other schools. This no doubt helped in recruiting as well:"Young man, sign with ND and your folks can watch you play every game on TV". Of course, things have changed dramatically with so many games being broadcast and every D-1 team's games available on the internet now. Still, ND derives huge financial benefit from the TV contract which has two more years to run. See an article on the subject below. www.si.com/college/notredame/football/notre-dame-football-and-the-pursuit-of-its-next-tv-contract-stires |
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Post by timholycross on Aug 8, 2023 7:48:49 GMT -5
Speaking of Stanford, they seem to be a school holding the bag in all this conference shuffling. They're good in just about everything except, right now; the two big ones. Can't believe they're not wanted. Odds on where Stanford and Cal will end up IMO: Big 12: 60% Big Ten: 30% ACC: 10% Big 12 could use a CA footprint. Wouldn't surprise me to see them add these 2 and San Diego St to obtain footprints in NorCal and SoCal. Only way Big Ten takes them is if they want the acadmeic clout. ACC would be funny. Pacific coast schools in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference. But perhaps Notre Dame would have interest in pushing the issue on their behalf...if ND doesn't see blood in the water and look to soon backtrack from their ACC membership and football scheduling agreement. It'll be interesting to see if Stanford and Cal are a joint entry or another long term relationship is irreparably damaged. It's pretty well documented that HC had a ground level opportunity to join the Big East. Whatever one thinks of BC, they didn't just ditch us. Sadly, most of college sports isn't like that any more. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 8, 2023 9:24:01 GMT -5
Odds on where Stanford and Cal will end up IMO: Big 12: 60% Big Ten: 30% ACC: 10% Big 12 could use a CA footprint. Wouldn't surprise me to see them add these 2 and San Diego St to obtain footprints in NorCal and SoCal. Only way Big Ten takes them is if they want the acadmeic clout. ACC would be funny. Pacific coast schools in the ATLANTIC Coast Conference. But perhaps Notre Dame would have interest in pushing the issue on their behalf...if ND doesn't see blood in the water and look to soon backtrack from their ACC membership and football scheduling agreement. It'll be interesting to see if Stanford and Cal are a joint entry or another long term relationship is irreparably damaged. It's pretty well documented that HC had a ground level opportunity to join the Big East. Whatever one thinks of BC, they didn't just ditch us. Sadly, most of college sports isn't like that any more. BC waited and then ditched their Big East founding partners for the ACC. Of course at some point a BOT has a fiduciary responsibility to not turn down a barrel of money for their institution. |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Aug 8, 2023 9:57:06 GMT -5
It'll be interesting to see if Stanford and Cal are a joint entry or another long term relationship is irreparably damaged. It's pretty well documented that HC had a ground level opportunity to join the Big East. Whatever one thinks of BC, they didn't just ditch us. Sadly, most of college sports isn't like that any more. BC waited and then ditched their Big East founding partners for the ACC. Of course at some point a BOT has a fiduciary responsibility to not turn down a barrel of money for their institution. If BC didn't leave in 2005, they would've ultimately joined the ACC in 2013 with Syracuse, Pitt and Louisville when the split happened. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 8, 2023 11:05:34 GMT -5
BC waited and then ditched their Big East founding partners for the ACC. Of course at some point a BOT has a fiduciary responsibility to not turn down a barrel of money for their institution. If BC didn't leave in 2005, they would've ultimately joined the ACC in 2013 with Syracuse, Pitt and Louisville when the split happened. Boston is the biggest media market of those four schools thus the logical choice in 2005. But no ACC horse race in BB or FB ever captivated the region like BC FB did as an independent with Flutie at QB. Joining a stronger league is not a panacea. One thing the ACC didn't understand was that UConn's fan support is a mile deep, while BC's fan support is a mile wide. The ACC would have gained umpteen more national championships, sweet sixteens, final fours, etc. if they had chosen UConn over BC. |
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Post by sader1970 on Aug 8, 2023 11:15:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure how I feel about this extended discussion about conferences/leagues that have no direct impact and very little indirect impact on Holy Cross sports. Yes, I could ignore the thread as I try to do with certain posters but like playing the lottery, I come here on the outside chance that I'll find a nugget of something interesting. So far - nada. One thing I am absolutely sure of, Holy Cross will not be joining any of these "big time" leagues whether entirely or just football or basketball. Regardless of what happens in college athletics overall, it just isn't going to happen. So, discussion of ACC, SEC, PAC-10,12,14 . . . . Big 10, 12, 24, etc. is a discussion of college sports in general. That's not a bad thing and God bless you all, but of no interest to me. Hey, Dean, any chance we can generate an "ignore button" for threads like we have for individual posters? It would prevent me from having to come here in the same vein as I can't avoid rubbernecking a traffic accident. And, no, I don't expect any of you to modify your posts. I acknowledge that I am just ranting. Carry on. Have fun.  |
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Post by nycrusader2010 on Aug 8, 2023 11:29:08 GMT -5
As someone who was spending hours a day on ESPN.com or watching SportsCenter at that time, UCONN wasn't even in the ACC expansion discussion in 2004. Remember they had JUST moved football up to I-A at that time.
Originally, the ACC was planning to take BC, Syracuse and Miami. And then the governor of Virginia got involved and somehow strong-armed the league into taking Virginia Tech in lieu of Syracuse.
At the time, I think more UConn supporters were upset about getting hoodwinked into moving football up to a diluted Big East than they were upset about not getting the ACC invite. Because it really wasn't reported as an option at the time.
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 8, 2023 11:42:45 GMT -5
As someone who was spending hours a day on ESPN.com or watching SportsCenter at that time, UCONN wasn't even in the ACC expansion discussion in 2004. Remember they had JUST moved football up to I-A at that time. Originally, the ACC was planning to take BC, Syracuse and Miami. And then the governor of Virginia got involved and somehow strong-armed the league into taking Virginia Tech in lieu of Syracuse. At the time, I think more UConn supporters were upset about getting hoodwinked into moving football up to a diluted Big East than they were upset about not getting the ACC invite. Because it really wasn't reported as an option at the time. The gripes from UConn fans didn't begin until after BC went in to the ACC and the Bald Eagles (BC alum) started sounding smug as I recall. |
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Post by timholycross on Aug 8, 2023 13:21:08 GMT -5
As someone who was spending hours a day on ESPN.com or watching SportsCenter at that time, UCONN wasn't even in the ACC expansion discussion in 2004. Remember they had JUST moved football up to I-A at that time. Originally, the ACC was planning to take BC, Syracuse and Miami. And then the governor of Virginia got involved and somehow strong-armed the league into taking Virginia Tech in lieu of Syracuse. At the time, I think more UConn supporters were upset about getting hoodwinked into moving football up to a diluted Big East than they were upset about not getting the ACC invite. Because it really wasn't reported as an option at the time. ....which is why Danang Dick Blumenthal, then the AG of CT; filed one or several lawsuits; none of which had anything to do directly with the ACC or its then-existing member schools. |
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Post by longsuffering on Aug 8, 2023 16:44:26 GMT -5
"Danang Dick Blumenthal" 🤣
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Post by DFW HOYA on Aug 9, 2023 10:01:29 GMT -5
ND is cheek and jowl with the Big Ten geographically. There must be a story about why they aren't in it. Did they have their own Father Brooks who turned down an invite, or were they just too Catholic? Or could they always make more money being a national independent with subway alums in every city big enough to have a subway? Michigan's Fielding Yost led the Big 10 to boycott ND when it first sought Big 10 admission. Later, Fritz Crisler, accused in the press of being anti-Catholic, then did the same. bleacherreport.com/articles/455885-the-notre-dame-michigan-rivalry-to-hell-with-notre-dame |
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