Actually, peer review is NOT very good at picking up premeditated, deliberate fraud by the submitting scientist. A good peer reviewer may notice inconsistencies that may require further investigation, but if the author really wants to fool the journal, they can. Even in this case, when a reviewer requested additional data, more fraudulent data was provided.
Unfortunately, what may be the long-term result is an unofficial embargo against Korean papers by the more prestigous journals. Journals receive papers with fantastic claims and conclusions all of the time, but unless the author is a well-known scientist, or from a well known lab or institution, these manuscripts get pitched.
Even today, journal editors are skeptical of papers from Russia or mainland China, not to mention countries with lesser scientific reputations. Decades ago, Japanese labs were in a similar position until they whipped themselves into shape.
Journals may now be thinking: if the highest-profile, best-funded lab in South Korea can't be trusted, and other Korean scientists couldn't be objective enough to detect such blatant fraud, why should we trust anything from that country?
Right now, Canada's DST matches the U.S. (except for Saskatchewan). But if the U.S. extends DST and Canada follows suit, Canadians are going to spending a lot more time communting in the dark because of their higher latitude.
However, NOT changing may cause even more problems. An example from the CBC:
The last time the United States and Canada observed different winter time systems was during the 1974-75 oil crisis. The U.S. did not turn its clocks back at all that fall in an attempt to conserve energy.
As a result, airline schedules involving flights from south of the border were occasionally one hour off, television schedules were mixed up and business associates regularly missed each other's phone calls.
I recall that "The Dark Knight Returns" makes a reference to this. Batman makes a comment (while falling, after taking one in the chest) that deliberately made the bat logo a highly visible target. Thus it would draw the enemies' fire to a protected region, rather than to his less- or unarmored body parts.
California taxpayers are supposed to pay Use Tax anyways, which is based on your purchases from out-of-state sellers. Thus, even if you didn't have to sales tax to Amazon.com, you have to pay (almost) the equivalent amount of tax on your CA 540 form.
Interestingly, although this tax has been on the books for a long time, the state government only added a line for it on 540 personal tax forms last year.
This creates a dilemma - if you are a CA taxpayer who made any out-of-state purchases (mail, telephone, online), you probably owe CA use tax. But most people I know put "0" on this line - and thus committed fraud when they signed the declaration line at the end of their tax form.
Those who haven't already, should read the recent NY Times series on class in America. Love it or hate it, class still exists and will affect your life.
In one of the articles in the series, it made abundantly clear the long-term and significant financial benefits of a college education. Furthermore, the class benefits of a college education will also affect your lifestyle, health, and your family's future.
Sure, there are lots of counter-examples in both directions. And I think there are lot of terrible inequities in this country. But before you decide to "break the rules", you should at least know what they are.
Some other countries have a system in which if you (the patenteed) do not practice your patented invention within a couple of years, your patent is subject to compulsory licensing.
In other words, others can now practice your invention after paying a licensing fee, but you can't stop them.
I recall from some interviews that Rodriguez brought up this exact pint, and also cited the Wachowskis (Matrix triology). The DGA countered by saying that these pairs had a track record of directing as a team, and thus were permissible.
The world's information is not "locked up" - they're called "books." Most human knowledge is still in this form, believe it or not.
I'm noticing more of this Google-myopia nowadays: if it can't be found in a search engine, then it either doesn't exist or isn't worth knowing.
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Actually, peer review is NOT very good at picking up premeditated, deliberate fraud by the submitting scientist. A good peer reviewer may notice inconsistencies that may require further investigation, but if the author really wants to fool the journal, they can. Even in this case, when a reviewer requested additional data, more fraudulent data was provided.
Unfortunately, what may be the long-term result is an unofficial embargo against Korean papers by the more prestigous journals. Journals receive papers with fantastic claims and conclusions all of the time, but unless the author is a well-known scientist, or from a well known lab or institution, these manuscripts get pitched.
Even today, journal editors are skeptical of papers from Russia or mainland China, not to mention countries with lesser scientific reputations. Decades ago, Japanese labs were in a similar position until they whipped themselves into shape.
Journals may now be thinking: if the highest-profile, best-funded lab in South Korea can't be trusted, and other Korean scientists couldn't be objective enough to detect such blatant fraud, why should we trust anything from that country?
Right now, Canada's DST matches the U.S. (except for Saskatchewan). But if the U.S. extends DST and Canada follows suit, Canadians are going to spending a lot more time communting in the dark because of their higher latitude.
However, NOT changing may cause even more problems. An example from the CBC:
The last time the United States and Canada observed different winter time systems was during the 1974-75 oil crisis. The U.S. did not turn its clocks back at all that fall in an attempt to conserve energy.
As a result, airline schedules involving flights from south of the border were occasionally one hour off, television schedules were mixed up and business associates regularly missed each other's phone calls.
I recall that "The Dark Knight Returns" makes a reference to this. Batman makes a comment (while falling, after taking one in the chest) that deliberately made the bat logo a highly visible target. Thus it would draw the enemies' fire to a protected region, rather than to his less- or unarmored body parts.
If you want examples of normal people becoming superheroes, I wonder if the more "realistic" scenario is Alan Moore's "Watchmen".
With the exception of Dr. Manhattan, all of those characters were physically normal.
In theory, this should be redundant.
California taxpayers are supposed to pay Use Tax anyways, which is based on your purchases from out-of-state sellers. Thus, even if you didn't have to sales tax to Amazon.com, you have to pay (almost) the equivalent amount of tax on your CA 540 form.
Interestingly, although this tax has been on the books for a long time, the state government only added a line for it on 540 personal tax forms last year.
This creates a dilemma - if you are a CA taxpayer who made any out-of-state purchases (mail, telephone, online), you probably owe CA use tax. But most people I know put "0" on this line - and thus committed fraud when they signed the declaration line at the end of their tax form.
Those who haven't already, should read the recent NY Times series on class in America. Love it or hate it, class still exists and will affect your life.
In one of the articles in the series, it made abundantly clear the long-term and significant financial benefits of a college education. Furthermore, the class benefits of a college education will also affect your lifestyle, health, and your family's future.
Sure, there are lots of counter-examples in both directions. And I think there are lot of terrible inequities in this country. But before you decide to "break the rules", you should at least know what they are.
Some other countries have a system in which if you (the patenteed) do not practice your patented invention within a couple of years, your patent is subject to compulsory licensing. In other words, others can now practice your invention after paying a licensing fee, but you can't stop them.
I recall from some interviews that Rodriguez brought up this exact pint, and also cited the Wachowskis (Matrix triology). The DGA countered by saying that these pairs had a track record of directing as a team, and thus were permissible.
The world's information is not "locked up" - they're called "books." Most human knowledge is still in this form, believe it or not. I'm noticing more of this Google-myopia nowadays: if it can't be found in a search engine, then it either doesn't exist or isn't worth knowing.