Ask a group of scientists what research journal(s) publish the most non-sense and Nature or a Nature Portfolio journal will come up more often than not. Ask the same group where they want to publish their next paper and it will be Nature or a Nature portfolio journal.
@academicchatter #academicpublishing #corporatescience #publishing #research #journals
Corporate research is dominating AI science, says Nur Ahmed, but they're not engaging with responsible AI research. They're choosing speed over safety.
They used supervised machine learning on 6 million papers and found few firms were working on responsible AI. A handful attended responsible AI conferences vs hundreds at other AI conferences.
When they do engage, it's on explainability not societal impacts and human rights.
#ICSSI #ScienceofScience #AItools #CorporateScience #ResponsibleAI
Not sure that "manipulation of global conference on #ClimateChange", or "press release to get public opinion behind the hypothesis" is included in the #Wikipedia article on #ScientificMethod yet.
But clearly funding determines what research is done and "get funding" is clearly Method.
#McKinseyCompany #ResearchFunding #CorporateScience
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-undermining-climate-whistleblowers.amp
The world's top management consultancy McKinsey & Company is using its position as a key advisor to the UN's COP28 climate talks to push the interests of its big oil and gas clients, undermining efforts to end the use of the fossil fuels driving global warming, according to multiple sources and leaked documents.
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