Comparing a dangerous fraud to another dangerous fraud is not the reach you desperately want to pretend it is.

Yes, especially the “you have way more power in research now than I do.” I have spent the last 10 years working for researchers / faculty in a large research university, who have published thousands of articles (all combined). I can say without equivocation that none of them would never, ever say anything like this to…

[person pretends to be a doctor, gives dangerous medical “advice,” might be getting people killed]

Literally the paragraph before the one that had you farting out this simpering complaint:

Just to stand up for the scientific establishment a bit, it is very hard to guard against outright fraud. This guy was publishing fake data and there just isn’t a good way to guard against that from the journal’s point of view. This isn’t the kind of philosophical research where we can only vet the absurdity of the…

thanks for the deep dive on this delusional asshole. hope you’ve passed this story along to the AMA, NY attorney general’s office, and all the journals he’s ever published to.

But any legitimate academic would probably be proud to successfully slip that into a well-vetted, peer-reviewed journal entry. Or at least a good number of the ones I know would.

“Congrats. You did what you felt was right... Turns out, wow, you have way more power in research now than I do. And I’m just very proud of you, because I have people that I really put a lot of effort, after you left, into making them the best and they didn’t turn out that well.”

Certainly those academic journals are going to have answer for this--retracting the articles at a minimum, and probably issuing an apology as well. And yes, that’s not much of a consequence, but given that the major currency of academy is prestige, that’s a pretty serious losing of face.

Since you “got to the end of the article,” I’m sure you would agree with me that Sendler brought up Trump in the interview, not the author.

Wait, you think someone pretending to be pretending is more interesting than a psychopath successfully working as an expert in their field...while being glowingly cited by the most popular media in America? I am just disappointed he didn’t get touted by Oprah dr oz and dr Phil first...then this article could have cut…

You know, this douchebag’s got a point. As he mentions near the end of the article, we are living in a world of bullshit where the fucking president of the US can spew dozens of lies a day and get away with it. Where facts are shouted down by idealogues who think any conflicting concepts are ‘fake news.’ Why the hell…

I mean, it was revealed this week, in financial statements, that Trump inflated his business accomplishments to attempt to buy the Bills and deflated them to avoid taxes. That’s an objectively true statement. The rest of your drivel is just the ramblings of someone who can’t handle the fact that their god-emperor has…

“Would a serious reporter title his articles in such non-professional, vulgar way?”
- Guy who used “Butt-fisted” in the title of a paper. 

His response is gold:

*Superman reflects on how hard it is to be a hero while standing in front of a depiction of the crucifixion of Christ*

“These so-called heroes are nothing but vigilantes claiming they’re above the law! Who will WATCH these MEN?” *looks at camera*

And I think Moore is sympathetic to the heroic impulse even in Watchmen — Dreiberg is a schlub but he and Rorschach are shown to be a pretty good team back in the 70s (their yin and yang complementing each other). And Nite Owl and Sally Jupiter’s rescue of people in the burning building is straight-up heroism that…

I’ve come to terms with the Wachowski Sister’s changes to V for Vendetta. Mostly because they updated the story to from a criticism of Thatcher to a criticism of Bush.

Movie adaptations of Moore’s work generally miss the point. I think the “V for Vendetta” movie was even more off the mark. In the comic, V wasn’t really the “hero” — the 1984-ish British regime was implied as awful, but V’s terrorism wasn’t really helping matters. Which is kind of how the real world works — you can…