COVID Censorship at ResearchGate: Info about Face Coverings Coated Up?
Visitor put up by Robert Kernodle
A Web site that Makes Analysis Open to All?
My title has a query mark in it, and my first heading has a query mark in it. The query mark within the title implies that there is perhaps a query about whether or not censorship is definitely going down, whereas the second query mark means that there’s undoubtedly a query concerning the legitimacy of a mission-statement declare. A decision of the second query mark would do away with the primary query mark, however I’ll depart that decision as much as readers.
For readers who may not know, ResearchGate is an internet site that has established an expert community for scientists and researchers (with over 17 million members from everywhere in the world) to share their publications, publish their knowledge, and focus on their analysis. In accordance with its phrases of service, ResearchGate’s mission is to attach the world of science and make analysis open to all.
You possibly can try the total phrases of service right here: https://www.researchgate.web/terms-of-service
The First Query
Has unreasonable censorship taken place?
On June three, 2020, ResearchGate eliminated an article by Physicist, Denis Rancourt, titled Masks Don’t Work: A Evaluation of Science Related to COVID-19 Social Coverage
Denis Rancourt has a PhD in Physics (1984, College of Toronto), is a former tenured Full Professor (College of Ottawa), and has revealed over 100 articles in main science journals (You possibly can simply lookup his credentials for your self, for those who don’t belief me).
ResearchGate’s discover of content material elimination to Rancourt acknowledged, … our phrases of service prohibit the posting of non-scientific content material on the platform.
Rancourt’s personal full expose’ of this editorial motion is right here:
https://archive.org/particulars/covid-censorship-at-research-gate-2/mode/2up
Since Rancourt’s article in query was banished from its authentic place of publication, I needed to dig a bit to discover a copy, since all hyperlinks to that location now land on a generic web page endorsing ResearchGate as a spot to … make analysis open to all. [implied eye roll]
To save lots of you the difficulty of trying to find it, I’ve loaded a replica to my DropBox right here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/w5eojbzj13zbnyd/COVID-19_Rancourt-Masks-dont-work-review-science-re-COVID19-policy.pdf?dl=zero
I’ve learn Rancourt’s expose’, I’ve learn his authentic article that was eliminated, and I’ve learn the phrases of service referenced by those that did the eradicating. Primarily based on all this, I’ve made my judgment concerning the actions taken on this case, which results in …
The Second Query
Does a corporation that claims to … make analysis open to all … adhere to this mission assertion, when it removes content material by a well-credentialed scientist, who rigorously backs his phrases with identified scientific info linked to obviously displayed and linked citations?– a corporation whose phrases of service make no requirement of formal peer overview? — a corporation that seemingly workout routines editorial energy primarily based soley on the way in which issues are being finished, relatively than on the scientific foundation of this fashion, which is the very basis of its mission assertion?
Once more, I’ll let readers choose and reply this query for themselves.
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