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The Climate Gate scandal highlights the modus operandi of the academic mafia.

Written by Chris F. Masse on December 18, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Required reading this Friday:
- How to Manufacture a Climate Consensus – About expelling the non-believers from the academic journals publishing on climate science
- The Dog Ate Global Warming – About the destruction of raw temperature data of Planet Earth
More info on climate change.
P.S.: East Anglia e-mails (CRU)

Posted in Ethics, Research, Science | Also tagged academia, academic mafia, climate change, Climate Gate, climate science, ClimateGate, Earth, Earth science, global warming, Planet Earth, Research, researchers, Science

How some US-based university professors endorsed a Holland-based consultancy firm

Written by Chris F. Masse on September 17, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Here is the e-mail that was sent to the prediction market scholars listed on Midas Oracle.:

Dear Mr. [PROFESSOR'S NAME GOES HERE],
I am writing on behalf of [PREDICTION MARKET SOFTWARE VENDOR'S NAME], a Netherlands based consulting firm, because our research has identified you as a scholar with some expertise in Prediction Markets or a related field. [...]

Posted in Analysis (Industry), Consulting, Ethics | Also tagged consultants, endorsement, Holland, prediction market consultants, scholars, The Netherlands, university professors

Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.

Written by Chris F. Masse on August 4, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Lance Fortnow:
While this made sense for a young discipline, our field has matured and the conference model has fractured the discipline and skewered it toward short-term, deadline-driven research. Computer science should refocus the conference system on its primary purpose of bringing researchers together. We should use archive sites as the main method of quick paper [...]

Posted in Research, Science | Also tagged academia, academics, computer science, conferences, journals, Lance Fortnow, researchers, Science

Scholarly journals are not so open.

Written by Chris F. Masse on July 1, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Academic Papers + Open Access + Scholarly Journals = a crazzzzzy mix

Posted in Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce | Also tagged academia, academic articles, academic papers, academic researchers, academics, Knowledge, open access, open knowledge, Research, research articles, research papers, research scientists, researchers, scholarly journals, Science

Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets.

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 29, 2009 — 3 Comments

Robin Hanson’s auto-biography (i.e., how Our Master Of All Universes views HimSelf):

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Robin Hanson:
Do you find it hard to summarize yourself in a few words? Me too.
But I love the above quote. I have a passion, a sacred quest, to understand everything, and to save the world. I am addicted to “viewquakes”, insights which [...]

Posted in Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, History, People | Also tagged academia, academics, auto-biographies, betting markets, biographies, bios, Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, collective intelligence that predicts, economic science, Economics, economists, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasting, forecasts, George Mason Univeristy, idea future markets, idea futures, idea futures markets, Our Master Of All Universes, Policy Analysis Market, predicting, prediction markets, Predictions, research scientists, researchers, Robin Hanson, scholars, tenure, universities

Do economics professors who have business relationships with prediction market companies indoctrinate their students about the supposed benefits of prediction markets?

Written by Chris F. Masse on March 3, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Read this New York Times article about academic–industry ties.
How much consulting and speaking fees (plus, free meals, tickets, trips or the like) do our economics professors receive from the prediction market industry?
Does it taint what they write and teach?
Should we ban prediction market companies from providing any academic funding?

Posted in Education, Ethics, Inventions & Innovations | Also tagged academia, academics, acholars, prediction market companies, prediction market industry, research scientists, researchers

ProfCast.com — A tool for recording lectures and creating enhanced podcasts.

Written by Chris F. Masse on February 10, 2009 — Leave a Comment

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Via the AskMarkets guy.
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Posted in Information Technology | Also tagged lectures, podcasts, ProfCast, ProfCast.com

The best researchers on prediction markets

Written by Chris F. Masse on June 4, 2008 — Leave a Comment

CFM: Scholars
Check that CFM page for updates. And contact me so I can make additions to the list. (I’ll then re-publish that updated list on Midas Oracle.)
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Michael Abramowicz – Michael B. Abramowicz – (Law School, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.) — Post Archives at Midas Oracle
Bernd H. Ankenbrand – Bernd Ankenbrand – (Lecturer, Witten/Herdecke [...]

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Tag Archives: professors

The Climate Gate scandal highlights the modus operandi of the academic mafia.

How some US-based university professors endorsed a Holland-based consultancy firm

Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.

Scholarly journals are not so open.

Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets.

Do economics professors who have business relationships with prediction market companies indoctrinate their students about the supposed benefits of prediction markets?

ProfCast.com — A tool for recording lectures and creating enhanced podcasts.

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