`Fake Science Publishing' - Prof Bernhard A Sabel PhD

 Winston's Weekly CrisiScience Collaborative ~ with Steve Winston

February 16th, 02023

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From Steve's Abstract:

It’s not enough to simply tell the truth—we have to SELL the truth.  The truth—what really is, what really happened, has to compete in an ever more mind numbing information market place driven from microcast to broadcast.  Real FACTS swim in a sea of opinions and political biases hammered into synthetic “facts” that are relentlessly marketed by their inventors to serve sometimes nefarious objectives.  Simply put, the information universe no longer segregates opinion and fact creating a stew of “separate facts” that threaten to drown any objective sense of reality.  The only chance that objective reality has in this game is for its advocates to exert the same relentless energy in selling (marketing) the truth as the alternate reality purveyors invest in promoting their charades.  

Selling the truth needs to not be confused with putting a pay-wall around the truth or turning it into a low value commodity.  The truth must be freely distributed and readily accessible to all who might have an interest.  

Unfortunately in the marketplace of scientific information, there is already a pay-wall in the form of scientific publishing.  And Academia is complicit in this by pushing its ranks to “publish or perish”—the more prestigious the journal the better.  That creates an unintended underground demand and a consequential big business for fact factories.  The time, effort, and expense involved in generating real scientific breakthroughs creates a shortage thereof.  So, because there’s a market to be served, with or without pedigree, there’s plenty of incentive to make stuff up.  And to pull that off, one or more complicit scientists used to be required to make a fake.  But AI and ChatGPT may be simplifying even that. What is the appropriate response? Handwringing and laments won’t fix it. 

 

Dr. Bernhard Sabel will present: 

 

 "Fake Science Publishing: massive threat to the permanent scientific record”

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Dr. Bernhard Sabel is Professor of Medical Psychology at University of Magdeburg, Germany

His research focusses for over 40 years on the neurobiological basis of recovery from brain damage using the visual system, vision loss and vision restoration as a model. He developed microcurrent neuromodulation to enhance brain network activation and uncovered how mental states (personality and stress) affect recovery in eye and brain disorders such as glaucoma, optic nerve and brain stroke or TBI.  His work led to the development of a new science-based, holistic treatment paradigm for the visually impaired which is offered at an international private practice (Savir-Center) in Germany, where 84% of his >1,500 patients improved their vision. Most recently, he has also become engaged in more fundamental problem:  hunting for fake science publications and estimating their yearly number in the science literature.

Dr. Sabel is Editor of the Journal RESTORATIVE NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSCIENCE and Vice-President of the International Society of Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation (ISLRR).  His >240 SCI publications have 13.000 Citations (H-index: 64) and were published in high ranking journals, including Science, Nature, Nature med, Brain, Annals Neurology, Neurology, Neuroimage, IOVS and Brit J Ophthalmology.

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& a great webinar was had by all...



(& I was put in mind of great talks by  CIRCE)
e.g.: 
`IMMUNITY CORPS' or `DISINFORMATION MITIGATION: There's a Science for that! ~ Dr. Andy NormanWinston's Weekly CrisiScience Collaborative ~ with Steve WinstonOctober 15, 02021
&
THE WEAPONIZATION OF DOUBT - Lee McIntyreWinston's Weekly CrisiScience Collaborative ~ with Steve WinstonNovember 11, 02021


& maybe even see my (Velikovsky's) review of Andy's book `Mental Immunity'


& as a fascinating aside, an Interview with Dr Sabel (from: Sept 02019), about some Science-Consulting he did, on a thriller novel trilogy!


&  Dr Sabel's private practice - The Savir Center






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