Questions tagged [scientific-papers]
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Have mathematicians concluded that an Indian mathematical physicist has solved the Riemann Hypothesis?
The Riemann Hypothesis is a mathematical hypothesis that describes the distribution of prime numbers. It is one of the seven Millennium Problems put forth by the Clay Mathematics Institute, notorious for its difficulty and has a $1,000,000 prize for…
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Do researchers receive no income from revenues arising from their published papers?
According to this article Meet the Robin Hood of Science (about the creator of a website to bypass paper access restrictions and paywalls),
Elbakyan made a point that will likely come as a shock to many outside
the academic community: Researchers…
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Did Euler make the elementary mistake √-2 √-3 = √6?
The following extract is from Tristan Needham's Visual Complex Analysis,
Even in 1770 the situation was still sufficiently confused that it was possible for so great a mathematician as Euler to mistakenly argue that √-2 √-3 = √6.
I found this to…
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Does Sci-Hub use malware and phishing to obtain researchers' login credentials?
There is a new BBC article, Police warn students to avoid science website about Sci-Hub, a pirate site to circumvent paywalls on science journals.
But Max Bruce, the City of London police's cyber protection officer, has urged universities to block…
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Do hot peppers kill cancer?
While browsing Health.SE, I came across an answer that makes the following claim:
A 2007 study by Nottingham University2 found that spicy foods can help kill cancer cells. Capsaicin, which is what makes many foods spicy, attacks the mitochondria of…
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Can up to 70% of scientific studies not be reproduced?
I read and heard a lot about the Reproducibility Initiative recently, claiming that the data of many scientific studies cannot/was not/is not be reproduced.
“In the last year, problems in reproducing academic research have drawn a lot of public…
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Are vaccinated children significantly less healthy than the unvaccinated, as recent study claims?
In their 2020 study termed "Relative Incidence of Office Visits and Cumulative Rates of Billed Diagnoses Along the Axis of Vaccination" [full text], appearing in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Lyons-Weiler et…
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Have the Covid-19 vaccines caused more deaths than Covid-19 itself did?
A popular article by Steve Kirsch on his substack discusses the following:
A worldwide Bayesian causal Impact analysis suggests that COVID-19 gene therapy (mRNA vaccine) causes more COVID-19 cases per million and more non-Covid deaths per million…
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Did The Lancet publish an account of a woman who did not age?
Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Christian Science religion, claimed in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures*, Ch. 8, p. 245:1-15:
The error of thinking that we are growing old, and the
benefits of destroying that illusion, are…
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Does Susan Crockford have any scientific credentials related to polar bears?
A recent paper Internet Blogs, Polar Bears, and Climate-Change Denial by Proxy by a number of very well known climate campaigners/experts addresses some of the media controversy about the effect of climate change on Polar Bears
The paper…
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Is an Instant Pot sufficient for "scientific sterilization"?
According to this promotional post by InstaPot,
Who knew that Instant Pot can provide scientific-grade sterilization? (Actually, we did.)
Swensen and her research team concluded that “store-bought pressure cookers can be an appropriate substitute…
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Do peer-reviewed scientific journals reject articles that propose intelligent design, regardless of merit?
Members of the intelligent design (ID) movement, when responding to arguments that journal articles don't support ID, claim that peer-reviewed scientific journals typically reject articles critical of the theory of evolution which propose some form…
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Whose account of the response to Michael Mann's original "hockey stick" analysis is correct?
New York has filed a lawsuit against several Big Oil firms on the grounds that they fomented contrarian opinion to undermine some findings in climate science.
In one part of the suit they claim the following (paragraph 86, my emphasis):
In the…
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Did Hippocrates make a statement similar to "like cures like"?
A number of homeopathic websites include the quote, "By similar things a disease is produced and through the application of the like is cured," but not one of them gives a source for the quote, other than a vague claim that it comes from…
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When the WHO/CDC/NIH recommended wearing cloth masks, did they cite any scientific paper supporting their effectiveness?
Background
The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons asserts that cloth masks are not a way to meaningfully protect someone against COVID-19 nor against source-control. According to their website:
Introduction
COVID-19 is as…
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