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In 1942, sociologist Robert Merton articulated an ethos of science in “A Note on Science and Technology in a Democratic Order.” He argued that, although no formal scientific code exists, the values and norms of modern science can nevertheless be inferred from scientists’ common practices and widely held attitudes. Merton discussed four idealized norms: Universalism, Communality, Disinterestedness, and Organized Skepticism. In this video, we explore what these norms are and what they mean for the scientific community. « A Note on Science and Technology » can be found at: http://www.collier.sts.vt.edu/5424/pd…

Merton, Robert K. 1973. The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations. University of Chicago Press.

Source: Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences (BITSS)

The future of automated scientific writing is upon us—and that’s a good thing.

In 2014, a researcher in France revealed a disturbing fact about the published scientific literature: At least 120 computer-generated manuscripts had made their way into academic conference proceedings, according to his analysis. Those robot-written papers, containing little more than strung-together buzzwords, had been created with a piece of software known as SCIgen, originally written on a lark by a trio of MIT graduate students in 2005. But in the years since, it seemed scientists had repurposed SCIgen to puff up their resumes and boost their professional status. This was understood to be a major scandal.

For Klemen Zupancic, though, the scandal was a source of inspiration. “It got us thinking,” the 32-year-old molecular biologist and tech entrepreneur told me this week from his office in Slovenia. Zupancic is head of sciNote, a tech startup that builds tools for helping scientists to switch from using pen-and-paper laboratory notebooks to more efficient online apps. (The company claims to have about 20,000 users, of which almost half are in the U.S.) When he read about the infiltration of academic journals by robo-generated text, he realized that the same approach might be used for honest ends. If software can publish scientific gobbledygook, then maybe it can write a valid scientific paper, too. So his company set out to create a program that would do just that.

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“I am standing for this role because I believe that psychology faces one of two possible futures. In one, we fail to reform our research culture and diminish.”

— NeuroChambers: My manifesto as would-be editor of Psychological Science

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Les chemins de la censure: la réactance Technicien propose à Gull d’explorer davantage l’île, focalisant toute son attention sur une mystérieuse forêt du nom de « La forêt censurée ». Mais à l’excitation de Technicien s’oppose un brutal refus de la part de Gull qui lui ordonne, non sans menace, de ne jamais y mettre les pieds. Encore plus intrigué, Technicien décide de braver l’interdit et de partir seul à l’aventure vers cette région interdite sans imaginer à quel point ce périple le transformera profondément, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Ce chapitre traite de la censure, non pas sur les objets censurés, ni sur sa pratique ou ses acteurs, mais sur les effets psychologiques qu’elle peut avoir sur l’individu. La censure peut se traduire comme une privation, et peut en cela générer une réactance. La réactance psychologique, mise en évidence par Brehm en 1966, est un état de tension ou de motivation qui apparaît dans une situation où l’on prive l’individu d’un choix, d’une liberté, d’une action possible ou d’un comportement. C’est sous la perspective de la réactance que nous allons interroger la censure dans ce chapitre. Pour retrouver les sources, articles complémentaires, vous pouvez vous rendre sur notre site: https://www.hacking-social.com/2019/0…

Herman, A. (2001). How the Scots invented the Modern World: the true story of how western Europe’s poorest nation created our world & everything in it. Crown.

This subject is of paramount importance. Indeed, the mysterious appearance of the dynamics of modern science can be linked to Kabalistic practices from ancient Egypt. All the people who were pioneers in scientific fields were linked to these forms of occultism, and modern science has bleached all that esoteric past that is the source of what is called the scientific revolution.
The secret societies, the Kabalistic practices, were transformed in England into scientific and scientific societies, with the appearance of the royal society set up by Francis Bacon.

The mastery of the material world, brings us to the end of the path with the current knowledge that the current world is a universe of interacting energies. To what extent is modern science (which is supposed to control matter) not a form of magic that controls the energies around us?

The matrix was not a movie … this topic deserves more exploration …. do you see what i see neo?