Daily Archives: 7 September 2015

US Jews maintain strong support of Iran deal — J Street poll (from July)

Survey finds Jewish support for nuclear agreement remains consistently high, with 60% in favor of recent deal.

www.timesofisrael.com/us-jews-maintain-strong-support-of-iran-deal-j-street-poll/

If I’m not mistaken, there is something in Kevin MacDonald’s work about Jews consistently choosing leaders more radicals than themselves, much more than other groups.

Nobel winner declares boycott of top science journals

Schekman said pressure to publish in “luxury” journals encouraged researchers to cut corners and pursue trendy fields of science instead of doing more important work. The problem was exacerbated, he said, by editors who were not active scientists but professionals who favoured studies that were likely to make a splash.

The prestige of appearing in the major journals has led the Chinese Academy of Sciences to pay successful authors the equivalent of $30,000 (£18,000). Some researchers made half of their income through such “bribes”, Schekman said in an interview.

www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals?CMP=share_btn_tw