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Victim Member	Thu Nov 18 09:20:40 Gone with it! http://ret...disappear-following-criticism/ Elsevier makes “sand, sun, sea and sex with strangers” paper disappear following criticism An Elsevier journal has disappeared a paper claiming that gay men seeking sex on the beach is damaging dunes, after critics lambasted the work as terrible science and an “egregious” attack on gays and bisexuals. The article, “Sand, Sun, Sea and Sex with Strangers, the “five S’s”. Characterizing “cruising” activity and its environmental impacts on a protected coastal dunefield [WebArchive link],” argue that the littoral lovemaking habits of some particularly enthusiastic mariners might be damaging key ecological species: The results show that the distribution of the 298 identified sex spots, which occupy an area of 5763.85 m2, is related to the distance to authorized paths in the protected area, to the presence of bushy and dense vegetation, and to stabilized aeolian landforms or ones formed by vegetation (nebkhas). The bigger the sex spot, the higher the number of people who made use of it, the greater the likelihood of it being a low-lying area covered by vegetation, and the larger the amount of waste. The activities developed in these sex spots impact directly on the aeolian landforms and on eight native plant species, three of which are endemic species. The paper was part of the January 2022 issue of the Journal of Environmental Management and appeared online on October 11, 2021. It didn’t take long before critics began calling for its retraction — not, or not just, because of its offensive premise, but because the authors appeared not to have received ethics approval for the study. On November 13 The Stem Village, which supports the LGBTQIA+ community in the STEM world, published a letter it wrote to the journal demanding retraction: We, like many others, are astonished that this level of irresponsibility passed editorial and peer review to be published. This, of course, is not the first article like this to also be published. As a community, we want to help enact change, and challenge “research” such as this, and the editorial processes that lead to their publication. We have penned an open letter to the Editors-in-Chief of the journal in question, asking them to retract the article, and will be sharing this with the respective universities of the authors. We have further contacted the funding body, the European Regional Development Fund, and the Commissioner of the fund, raising concerns that public funding was used to support a study that could directly endanger the lives of people engaging in cruising. Today, The Stem Village tweeted that the researchers had apologized for the article and would be making changes to it An error now appears where the paper once lived online, which isn’t what we — or the Committee on Publication Ethics — would consider best-practice in this or any case. [See update at end.] As we have noted elsewhere, Elsevier has temporarily removed more than 100 papers since 2005, by our count. The papers are often reinstated without any mention of why the paper was removed. Co-author Patrick Hesp, of the Beach and Dune Systems Laboratory, College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, in South Australia, who penned a commentary on the paper for The Conversation, declined to comment pending decisions by the editors.
Sam Adams Member	Thu Nov 18 09:25:22 Science that portrays any special caste in a negative light must be banned. It is fake. Only science that targets white men is acceptable. Seb and his lefties sure sounds a lot like the taliban.
Seb Member	Thu Nov 18 12:58:25 Sam never met pseudoscience he wasn't ready to champion if it confirms his prejudice.
Rugian Member	Thu Nov 18 13:29:09 Says the guy who buys the "math is white supremacy" and "there are a million genders" cult beliefs.
Sam Adams Member	Thu Nov 18 13:46:40 "Genes dont define humans" -seb
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