VictorFort Gaines wastewater operator indicted for allegedly falsifying reports, polluting Chattahoochee River. #wastewater #data #falsification #report #pollution #Georgia https://www.wrbl.com/news/georgia-news/fort-gaines-wastewater-operator-indicted-for-allegedly-falsifying-reports-polluting-chattahoochee-river/
VictorFort Gaines wastewater operator indicted for allegedly falsifying reports, polluting Chattahoochee River. #wastewater #data #falsification #report #pollution #Georgia https://www.wrbl.com/news/georgia-news/fort-gaines-wastewater-operator-indicted-for-allegedly-falsifying-reports-polluting-chattahoochee-river/
Dr Mircea Zloteanu 🌺🌞🍃#statstab #525 Falsificationism and clinical trials
Thoughts: A strongly worded paper on the role of Poperrian induction on inference.
#Popper #falsification #induction #inference #philosophy #evidence #clinical
Joseph Lim 
OPINION🧐: #Japan must toughen #nuclear #regulation after #Hamaoka data #falsification
"In terms of #misconduct, #ChubuElectric surpasses #TEPCO.. 4yrs b4 te accident, regulators strongly urged TEPCO to take countermeasures against tsunamis tt exceeded prev assumptions, but were brushed off, later saying TEPCO "didn't respond +vely." These failures were kept hidden for ~7yrs aft te accident.. seems tt Nuclear Regulation Authority's still taken lightly by power #utilities"🤦♂️
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/72804
"In terms of #misconduct, #ChubuElectric surpasses #TEPCO.. 4yrs b4 te accident, regulators strongly urged TEPCO to take countermeasures against tsunamis tt exceeded prev assumptions, but were brushed off, later saying TEPCO "didn't respond +vely." These failures were kept hidden for ~7yrs aft te accident.. seems tt Nuclear Regulation Authority's still taken lightly by power #utilities"🤦♂️
https://english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/72804
OPINION: Japan must toughen nuclear regulation after Hamaoka data falsification
The 2011 accident caused by Tokyo Electric Power Company at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is estimated to cost 23.4 trillion yen ($147 billion) for decontamination, compensation and cleanup of the damaged reactors.
Pirate NationLes collaborateurs, par Frédéric Lordon (Les blogs du Diplo, 18 février 2026) ➤ https://blog.mondediplo.net/les-collaborateurs • Donc ils ont eu une éducation. Ils sont allés aux écoles — enfin à Sciences-Po, ou en école de journalisme. Donc on leur a enseigné. Donc, ils ont appris. Ils ont appris l'Histoire. L'ont régurgitée — dans des copies, puis dans des articles, dans des discussions mondaines. Ils … #extrêmedroite #inversion #falsification #collaboration #médias #politique #fascisme
Les collaborateurs
Il va falloir se souvenir de ce week-end de février, parce qu’il restera sans le moindre doute possible comme un moment historique. Non pas que ce qui s’y est passé soit absolument inédit — la négation de la course au fascisme sous Macron, l’accablement de l’unique formation politique réellement d’opposition. La bascule dans ce que par commodité on appelle la « trumpisation », c’est-à-dire une manière hors-norme de mentir, de déformer et de fabriquer, a saisi l’entièreté du paysage politique et médiatique, et cette bascule est totale.
Ars Technica NewsJapanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data https://arstechni.ca/sQ38 #falsification #nuclearsafety #nuclearpower #earthquakes #seismicrisk #Fukushima #Science #fraud #Japan
#statstab #469 Significance tests, p-values, and falsificationism
Thoughts: An "interesting" thread of philosophy of science and debating.
#discussion #debate #pvalue #falsification #nhst
https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/significance-tests-p-values-and-falsificationism/
Significance tests, p-values, and falsificationism
This thread takes its inspiration from the recent discussions in social science and statistics about significance tests, what they’re good for, whether p-values should be banned, and what all of that has to do with general scientific methodology, particularly the Popperian one called falsificationism. See this Twitter thread for a random place to jump into the discussion. That place, however, was where @f2harrell suggested we create a thread over here. I’ll start this thread off, if I may, with...
#statstab #468 Why Summaries of Research on Psychological Theories are Often Uninterpretable
Thoughts: psychology uses significance testing backwards relative to hard sciences.
#meehl #theory #criticism #falsification #popper #methods #nhst #psychology
https://scienceplusplus.org/metascience/assets/Meehl1990_1985.pdf
colporteur« Le massacre de Thiaroye, au Sénégal, en 1944, c’est le rétablissement de l’ordre colonial », Mamadou Diouf, historien. #falsification https://seenthis.net/messages/1141374#message1141980
*Le massacre de tirailleurs par l'armée française, en 1944…
au Sénégal, a été "prémédité" et "camouflé", selon un rapport officiel* https://www.franceinfo.fr/monde/afrique/senegal/le-massacre-de-tirailleurs-par-l-armee-francaise-en-1944-au-senegal-a-ete-premedite-et-camoufle-selon-un-rapport-officiel_7558735.html (...)
#statstab #429 A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories: Publication Bias and Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null
Thoughts: Ignoring null findings keeps bad theories alive.
#nulleffects #nhst #falsification #theory #critique #reproducibility #pvalue
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1745691612459059