Again, not quite correct, because Chinese have been caught in "paper mills"
They also have "electronics mills", "kitchenware mills", even "car mills". That's what they good in. Of course they will have "paper mills". And if they see that only number of publications and citations valued, they will go for it, not for quality. Expecially taking in account that western scientists do exactly the same for decades.
Quality of Soviet scientific publications was order of magnitude higher, until western "rules" arrived on USSR fall. And now we have same stream of useless, never reproduced papers and so publications/citations race for the sole goal of higher number of publications and citations.
I think around 80% of modern scientific papers should be retracted, regardless of country of origin.
I always wondered why even papers that was not confirmed by later experiments never retracted or at least disclaimered that they was found false. F.e. in particle physics. all that papers with new particle predictions that was never confirmed even on LHC, despite all conditions described in paper was met, are still there, like nothing happened and still cited and their authors accounted as valued ones.
Also, this passage from the article:
That proportion is an order of magnitude higher than China’s retraction rate, and 50 times the global average.
does not mean that there are 50 times more fraudlent chineese papers. It means that chineese papers retracted 50 times more often. That could easily mean that same western fraudlent articles just not retracted for political/financial/whatever reasons.
Also, biology and medicine is a very corrupted area. If Chineese publish articles that could potentially harm western BigPharma, then they will be retractded by western journals, because they depend highly on western BigPharma.
Retraction also does not mean that article is inherently fraudlent. It could be just counter-narrative f.e.
Recall that ivermectin papers. Once it become a threat to BigPharma, it nearly disappeared from publications, and many articles was retracted, despite being valid and even replicated.
I used to be in academia, you don't have to sell me on the state of academia.
Cheers, so we know how it works. :(
That said, I don't think you're reading the chart quite correctly.
Chart is biased.
My point is that western institutilons have official retraction rate lower than 5%, only because of political/finacial reasons, not because of better papers quality. My second point is that this official retraction rate is a huge underestimation of what have to be retracted in normal system.
Japanese are exactly the same. They just passed the stage "hey, orientals, make me cheapest crap possible" in area of consumer goods.
If you're an editor at a journal, and 5% of the papers from a Chinese university have to be retracted,
Problem is that same amount, if not even more papers from Europe/USA have to be retracted, but that could have consequences for the editor. :) They just could not retract a paper paid by BigPharma or huge government grants that is used as a core reasom for huge profits or gov. spending/actions.
Most scientific journals are businesses under West jurisdiction. Chineese or Indians couldn't harm them financially or legally, but Western elites could.
State of Western Academia (really including Russian one, that is organized same as Western one with minor differences) is nicely described in one of last Sabine Hossenfelder's rant on YT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg. (Interesting, does she spread same thing on climatehoax and coronahoax "science", or continue to be a hypocrite ?)
There is much bigger conspiracy - why papers that was not replicated by independent researches are allowed to be cited in other papers.
As for your question about Asians - it is very simple. Since in the modern scientific world the level of researcher is measured by number of publications and citations, not by the quality of publication, they just do what will give them best resilts in that metrics. It's like Chineese manufacturer - they could do high-quality things, but if the customer(supply manager of supermarket network f.e.) want as cheap as possible goods, chineese will never refuse to fullfill the order. Same with the science. If they want more publications and citations - no problem, there will be more publications and citations.
So, if Academia is value scientists by number of publications in commercial scientific journals and citations by other publications author, not by the quality, importance, significance, etc of research, then there is absolutely no anything strange that Asians will do exactly what Academina "customer" wants.
Unless Academia drop that insane and corrupt tradition to value scientists by number of publications and citations - nothing will chenge ever.
Shittyness of publications from "best" western universities is exactly the same, it is just much simplier and consequenceless for western scientific peer-rewvewed journal to retract some unknown chineese dudes article, than to do it with similar shitty article from some "famous" western university with (((their))) names in it.
Add the politics and narratives here, and you get the current state of things in Academia.
Academia is rotten to the core. For a long time already.
Jewish Third Temple have to be built in Jerusalem, not in some town north of Black Sea. Not even in Uman. Israel is just preferrable over Ukraine, that's all. Finally they got that they have no chance in Ukraine, so there is no any point to continue to support that project and it will be wise to transfer all resources left from failed projects to higher priority target.
That's the drawback of continiously changing politicians. Such strategy is good in a short term, but will fail in a long term. When a politician could enrich himself knowing he will never be hold accountable and all shit he did will be left to the next similar self-enriching politician, then they will always choose such short-term shit.
So, politicians have to be hold accountable for any consequences of their decisions without any statute of limitation, even if they quit politics long ago.
That tariffs thing is pretty strange. Especially 100% one.
We have custom tariffs of around 20% on things that also produced locally. Local customers just paying 20% more for both, imported and local goods. Local producers wouldn't put the price significantly lower than import ones. So basically it is a way to gift additional 20% of profits to local manufacturers. Good for local manufacturers, bad for local customers and absolutely indifferent for foreing exporters. They wouldn't feel anything at all.
The intention is clear - to support local manufacturers, but if you import 100% of some goods, then it is just government stealing money from people under guise of import replacement.
Tariffs have sense if you already have local manufacturing comparable with import in quantity and quality. Then it could have sense. If you don't have local manufacturing, then tariffs will not force anybody to create local manufacturing. Just everything connected in any way with tariffed goods will become more expensive and that's all. Just inflation and nothing more.
Been there, saw that. Tariffs on, say, imported cars just make decent 2000 Chevy Tahoe on the secondary market cost 1M RUB ($11k). That is result, not better and cheaper cars manufactured in Russia.
Exactly same will happen with US.
There are many different ways that really works. F.e. force all government employees use only US made smartphones with 100% localisation. With severe fines or persecution for using China made iPhones and other. If you are a government employee and can't buy 100% US smartphone, then you have to use old US manufactured landline vintage stuff. Suddenly, many limits, prohibitions and regulations that prevent US businesses from reviving local manufacturing of consumer electronics will disappear instantly.
Good thing to remember, without any doubt.
I don't think it is possible to prevent leaks of technology in that scenario. I'm about not some physical alient tech piece, but idea or principle or even just knowledge that something possible. Such leak will be clearly visible in the more or less sequential human technology flow. It will be like appearence of complete digital computers, may be in mechanical implementation, but still digital, binary in nature in mid-17 century without any prerequisites for inventing binary computers like Boolean algebra, binary numeric system and concept of algorithms and programming.
I'm monitoring a lot of science and engineering stuff, papers, news, looking for such glitches for a long time, since I'm sure it is the best way to find a solid proof of aliens, but there is still nothing.
How many people paid attention to Event 201 at the time? I don't think it is something so overhyped and media beloved as "AI" topic. It is something we could barely notice and hardly will took seriously. Just like Event 201.
Interesting, is it possible to trick all that ChatGPT toys to list modern day meetings mentioned in MSM or respective sites of organisators, that have similarities to Event201? :)
Valid theory, without any doubts.
It's easy to check. The cost of printing a book in Peru is not a secret. Then you cant get a sum of money that go somewhere, definitely not for the printing of the books. If you find that money in pockets of wealth of those who organized printing, then OK, I was wrong in that case. But if a noticeable abount of money was spent on some "consulting", "IP", "lawers" or whatever from some third-party, then there is a thread to pull hard.
To dominate world Jews sneak into all possible state and private institutions that are crucial for state existence or could be used to destroy other states that do not allow or just try to resist Jews to sneak in. Usually they don't need much money for that today, they use their tribe members who are already in place.
Jews could be behind that "wasteful spendign" scheme, and probably they are, just not for money, but for actual final goals.
What's the point of money you can't use?
If I understand correctly, IRS or other entities could pay attention if US citizen will buy goods that are exceed his declared income. So it's not that easy to use such offshored money for your own pleasure.
May be. But then they had to be added into billionaires list. I don't see that. Let's take a look on perpetrators. None of US Senators who approved that bills is billionaire. None of gov officials who requested and/or acquired that money is billionaire. So, there is definitely something more complex, than you state.
And, meanwhile, even in a simple amateur money laundering operation you will find a whole chain of proxy LLC's. What makes you think that all that institutions, businesses and persons who received taxpayer's money for declared shit is the only and final proxies in this?
If this were the case, we wouldn't see so much panic in DC. We wouldn't see the Media Brainwashing Machine rearing it's head of manipulation against the folks uncovering the grift.
That's exactly what needed to thoroughly hide all ends of black programs.
When you, doing eveil things hidden behind stupid projects, caught for "wasteful spending", what would you do to keep your evil things in secret? Of course panic about being caught for "wasteful spending". That was to whole idea of fake "wasteful spending" cover up. If you caught, you, in the worst case, could be held accountable only for that "wasteful spending". How to convince everybody that it was your goal - to theatrically panic about be punished for "wasteful spending" and push all that "it was very important, not wasteful1111!!!!, how dare you to not spend money on it" narrative in MSM.
If this were part of the grift, the media would be urging people to accept it. They sure af aren't. They're fighting it tooth and nail.
If MSM will be like "OK, they being caught, not a problem", after the years of supporting al that shit, that will be extremely suspicious. They are in it and play their role.
I understand that my theory is too stretched, but there is another thing - I don't see the side auditing all that "wasteful spending" trying to dig deeper. "Look, they bought coffe cup for $1500 each!" - and that's all. Why not track where that money really ended. Company selling coffee cups for $1500 could be just a proxy. And looks like this DOGE just will punish one who paid for and one who sold this coffee cups, nothing more.
Even regular gang of thieves, more or less intelligent one, spend noticeable part of money they stole on the research and planning of the next theft. Why would that much more advanced criminals not do the same? If they fucked up people one way and get hand on their money, they definitely will spare part of it and significant one for the next round.
Of course they are in no way genius or whatever, but even that dumbfucks use some planning and think about their real goals first. And you can't deny that cheating and lying is in their nature. What makes you think that when they write something like "10M for mice on caffeine study" and then "oh, now, you caught me on wasteful spending, It shouldnt have happened!" they are not lying again, when you saw nothing except lies from them?
Meanwhile exactly that loud and theatrical reaction of MSM and othr participants caught my attention and provoke a thoughts about other possible explanations.
Some black, secret budget will attract attention just by the fact of secrecy. Of everybody from ordinary people to the foreing intelligence.
Best way to hide something is to put it in the clear sight.
To do evil things you absolutely don't need any advanced tech. All you need is, suddenly, financing. So, it should drip from somwhere. And all that "innocent stupid research" is a perfect way to get it under perfect cover.
I don't state that funding cuts are bad thing, and not for continuation of funding stupid shit. I just try to say that there could be much more behind that "stupid funding" than we could imagine and nobody will look into that.
I dare to change your analogy into something like "this information coming out about the damage that fluoride causes is just a distraction from the real project of adding highly effective mind-programming substances with permanent effect under guise of water fluoridation. They really add fluorides, and that never ever cost as much as they spent, most money was spent on the research and development of much worse things added to that fluoridated water. Fluoride also helps to hide this shit from analysis. Independent researcher will see high fluoride levels and attribute all shit to it, and will not dig deeper."
I know, it's too stretched assumption, but not a lot, really, comparing to things we observed not long ago. Why would they suddenly stop doing them?
If they tried to create virus to perpetuate a hoax with pandemy to force people into taking malicious jabs, why can't they do what I described? What if money allocated for "gay culture health benefits research" was really spent on the research about finding most harmful RNA sequence in mRNA vaccine and it wasn't funded only by corporations or bill gates, but by congress and reps too?
Imagine, you need to fund some true evil and not be caught you do that evil. If you will fund something secret named "mkultra", then it could rise questions and digging into what you hide. And truth could be uncovered eventually. And you could be accused in that evil.
But if you fund some "feeding mice with caffeine", and have a fake lab with few mice in cages and coffemachine, then you could be accused only in stupidity and in a worst case with very low probability in a money laundering,, but not with that awful things you really did.
16 states to host AI data centers ..for what?
For taxpayers money.
Scaling dumb text generators just will make generated shit more average, nothing more. It's like when you calcualte average salary using questioning every third person randomly with even distribution across all stratas, and think you will somehow get magnitude more correct number if you do that for every odd person. Quantity in that case just can't turn into quality, difference will be insignificant.
All the MAGA women look weird like that.
Never noticed that before.
Something definitely wrong with her eyes. They are black on every image, like she wear large black contact lenses or infected by X-files black oil. It's not even speaking about nonsense of female being a Christian pastor.
It's too early for consequences. If (and it's a huge IF) USAID, as other state entities that financing NGOs will be shut down for real, only then you will notice consequences, and not immidiately, but much later when NGOs will run out of previously provided funds. For now, all that shill factories and MSM are eating existing funds and could easily borrow money backing their loans with future financing.
Rule of thumb with modern gadgets with network abilities - keep them in your local network and never allow them to reach internet. :)
Or write your own firmware, or use opensource one, like OpenWRT for routers.
If you dare to follow link to CISA report ("fact shit", indeed) and find "Technical details of backdor" and have minimum knowledge, then things will look pretty different.
They have a screenshot of decompiled code. But for completely unknown reasons they redacted the only thing that could be kind of reason for their statememnts.
What the code on screenshot do:
First it tries to mount some NFS network disk share with redacted address to device /mnt directory. Without any login/password, meanwhile. Then, if share is mounted and if "monitor" directory exist on mounted share, it copies program and config to device filesystem.
Basically it is just simple way to debug firmware on real device without reflasing it constantly, piece of debug code that was not removed or properly shut down in firmware release. Bad decision, nothing more.
Also, NFS server that exposed to internet - is an awful idea in general. NFS protocol is very old thing, it works like shit even with minimum delays and fundamentally unsecure. It could be normally and safely used only in local network, behind the firewall when you completely control both clients and server. If somebody exposed his NFS server to the whole internet - he is an idiot, and probably already was hacked multiple times by numerous bots that run everywhere, including your browser if you didn't turn off all that "serviceworkers" and "websockets".
Funny that CISA hide the address, because it could be some local network thing like 192.168.0.1 or 10.10.10.10. It is highly probable, taking in account NFS. Another funny thing is that patient data is printed via LPD then. Yes, of course there is an undeground facility somewhere in China, where Chineese spies have thousands of printers that print patients data day and night on endless rolls of paper.
I saw much worse things many times, and still don't really think that APC want to stole data about voltages in power grid and UPS battery charge levels around the world or Cisco(Linksys) want to collect all possible WiFi hotspots names. :)
Regarding real spying, better take a look at modern browsers, proprietay OSes and all that cloud shit everybody gladly use to store really private data. That's the things that purposedly created to steal private data and spy on users.
You mistakingly suppose that Chineese lie. They don't.
They see, that only number of publications and citations is valued in a modern world. So, they just do what is valued. That simple.
If the world had valued practical usefulness of scientific paper (as was in USSR - you had to show actual practical usefulness to get your publication accepted, that's why many abstract matematicians and theorists flee to the West, meanwhile), then we would have observed Chineese "paper mill" prodicing papers with practical usefulness.
It's interesting that many people account Chineese as people like them, just doing wrong things. That's not like that. Chineese are completely different civilisation, with completely different values. They are not like us. One of the difference - they always assume that customer always know what he want, and hold all responsibility for all possible consequences of his wishes, and it's not Chineese business to argue something. If customer want something as cheap as possible then
Chineese assume that customer perfectly understand that he will get what he want in whole. If customer want things as cheap as possible, it is totally customer responsibility for the lowest possible quality of this things. He knows better, he understand he will get total crap for that price, and it is completely his deliberate decision. Chineese will satisfy his request without any question.
If customer (the world scientific community in our topic) value publications and citations, then Chineese will make exactly publications and citations. If the world scientific community valued quality more that quantity, then there will be muc less chineese papers with much higher quality.
It is very strange for me, that very few people understand that simple thing about Chineese and most blame them for doing exact things most want from them. Buy "iPhone" for $50 and then complain about "lying Chineese" when they get exactly what they wanted - "iPhone" for $50, that is different from one for $1000 - it is just insane.