A lying woke so called "scientist" did to science what so called "reporters" have done to journalism: he lied to make his story fit his agenda. Patty T. Brown admitted he "left out the full truth" which translates to the fact that he lied in a fake study published in a former prestigious science journal.
Brown is a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University and has a doctorate in earth and climate sciences. The liar distorted the findings of his fake studies in order to get it published at Nature and Science magazines, the latter of which ought to change its name to So Called Science magazine. He came clean in an online article in The Free Press, a blog post and a series of social media posts .
In order to try justifying his unethical behavior, Brown wrote in The Free Press: "And the editors of these journals have made it abundantly clear, both by what they publish and what they reject, that they want climate papers that support certain pre-approved narratives—even when those narratives come at the expense of broader knowledge for society."
So what makes these journals prestigious? They do not practice science but pretend they do.
Brown's tunnel vision study was published in Nature on Aug. 30th. It stated that climate change affected extreme wildfire behavior like the devastating fires in Maui and California. The prevaricator finally admits that he "focused narrowly" (which of course is very unscientific) only on the human influence of wildfires rather than focusing on other clearly relevant factors.
Brown's tunnel vision study was published in Nature on Aug. 30th. It stated that climate change affected extreme wildfire behavior like the devastating fires in Maui and California. The prevaricator finally admits that he "focused narrowly" (which of course is very unscientific) only on the human influence of wildfires rather than focusing on other clearly relevant factors.
Brown blamed his bastardized approach to his study, not on himself for going ahead with it, but on the pressure he and his peers are put through to get published. "Publish or perish" as academics often say.
Still, the alleged scientist is not "disowning" his work by criticizing his approach, but is softening his lack of scientific treatment, his lack of veracity, his unethical standards by calling it less "useful than it could have been."
Patty Brown is less useful than he could have been, and those journals, well you decide how you want to use the paper.
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