scientific trolling or just butt hurt?

[stormium]

so, a group of scientists published a paper called "nasa faked the moon landing—therefore, climate science is a hoax" which indicated that a lot of people who disagree with the majority of scientific studies which indicate that humans are a key factor in climate change also tend to believe in conspiracy theories. this paper was published in a psychology journal.

...in response to this article paper, those people who disagree with humans being a key factor in climate change responded with conspiracy theories in regards to the paper which caused the original group of scientists who published that paper to conduct a new study and published a new paper entitled, "recursive fury: conspiracist ideation in the blogosphere in response to research on conspiracist ideation." this paper was also published in a psychology journal.

lols...

in response to this new paper, the conspiracists started writing letters to the publishers with complaints and legal threats in order to have this new paper taken down. in response to the complaints and legal threats, the publisher took the paper off their website on the 13th of march last year so they could review it's ethical, academic and legality.

the publisher has finally decided not to repost the paper — not because of ethical or academic reasons — since the paper's "legal context is insufficiently clear."

the term: "legal context is insufficiently clear" is a fancy way of saying "not sure if science winning hard taunting expensive lawsuit."

in other words: a legitimate scientific study (serious win) was almost removed from the internet due to a few conspiracists being butt hurt by glorious amounts of win and science.

you can read the original paper here: http://pss.sagepub.com/content/24/5/622

you can read the second paper here: http://websites.psychology.uwa.edu.au/la...ry4UWA.pdf

[ShadyJay]

Ever see a movie "Wag the dog"?.
Every time I see a story like this I think "It could be true"
Why haven't we gone back?

In the end, does this effect me?

[stormium]

In the end, does this effect me?

internet censorship by way of threat of lawsuit and harassment by someone (or some people) who have a decisive self-serving interest in seeing information removed from the public domain for no other reason than that it hinders their credibility (and ad-based income) by pointing out that their beliefs are inline with those who also believe in conspiracies without any solid evidence?

nope. this thread should have no affect on you.