If Sabine Hossenfelder says it, it´s official. I blogged about this before. The *really* interesting (and disturbing) question is: why? These claims have been made throughout my lifetime, and probably earlier too. Why haven´t they been questioned before freakin´ 2024?
Replication crisis, indeed.
But how far does it go? How many professors and experts out there got their lucrative positions due to outright research fraud? Of course, other reasons do come to mind. Tabloid sensationalism coupled with some kind of romantic longing for the primitive and "natural", perhaps. Or a stunning naïvety. High trust society, anyone?
When in reality it was (of course) just bad records and pension fraud, all the way down!
Vi håller på att få en hel del suspekta åldersrekord i Sverige med. Importerade pensions bedrägeri. Ålderskontroll är ju inte någon svensk paradgren.
ReplyDeleteHär ett exempel på en "116-årig" turkisk tamt i Västerås:
https://youtu.be/8yqST1rXi50?si=CiOrvXVHFpSkjken