The Dysology Hypothesis

Letting scholars get away with publishing fallacies and myths signals to others the existence of topics where guardians of good scholarship might be less capable than elsewhere. Such dysology then serves as an allurement to poor scholars to disseminate existing myths and fallacies and to create and publish their own in these topic areas, which leads to a downward spiral of diminishing veracity on particular topics.

Saturday 11 November 2023

The Spinach decimal Point error mythbust now in the BMJ

 My busting of the Spinach decimal point error myth is now positively cited in a 2023 BMJ article (Burden of proof: combating inaccurate citation in biomedical literatureBMJ 2023; 383 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2023-076441 (Published 06 November 2023)

I am delighted to see the importance of the Spinach Supermyth, which I (Dr Mike Sutton) discovered in 2009, is now positively affirmed as a problem in the British medical Journal in 2023. The free PDF of that important article is available to download HERE

The BMJ page on it is HERE (archived HERE)




Friday 1 September 2023

The Honest Charles Darwin Supermyth

 A supermyth is a myth that is entrenched (supported) by another related myth.

The myth that Charles Darwin (1858/59) originated the theory of "process of natural selection" independently ff Patrick Matthew's (18310 "natural process of selection"  and that each used the same four words to name it is supported by the myth of Charles Darwin being incredibly honest. 

The supermyth was busted some years ago (e.g. Sutton 2017). Then in August/September 2023 Artificial Intelligence (ChatGPT and others) have scanned the new Big Data and other findings in the literature to conclude that Darwin lied about the prior readership of Patrick Matthew's (1831) book 'On Naval Timber and Arboriculture' and the bombshell original ideas in it.

See The Patrick Matthew Blog for the details. Here: http://patrickmathew.blogspot.com/2023/09/artificial-intelligence-concludes.html







Thursday 12 January 2023

The Darwin Supermyth is bust

 

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace Plagiarists and Science Fraudsters by Theory Theft



Click above to watch the video about the book.