And in other news about Climate Change...
These are “journals” for which university libraries and corporations pay huge fees every year.
But... but... but...
...the science is settled!
It would be interesting to see length and complexity of the research vs. retraction odds. Compare a mathematical theorem which requires just paper and pencil vs. a ten year study once again "proving" that coffee is good or bad for you.
I would like to see the fake research on second hand smoke causing cancer cancelled. That was a big joke.
Shocking
Does this mean we have longer than 8? Years to live?
…” businesses or individuals that, for a price, will list a scientist as an author of a wholly or partially fabricated paper. The mill then submits the work, generally avoiding the most prestigious journals in favor of publications such as one-off special editions that might not undergo as thorough a review” …
So the problem is solving itself
You ain’t seen nothing yet. Wait until AI really gets going writing “scientific” papers.
Wiley, an academic publisher, has announced that it is closing 19 journals amid a massive influx of fake papers, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. The publisher has retracted more than 11,300 “compromised” studies over the past two years. The Journal reported that at least two other academic publishers also have retracted hundreds of fake studies each.
The 19 journals were all previously owned by Hindawi, an Egyptian publishing company with a portfolio of about 250 journals that Wiley purchased in 2021. A Wiley spokesperson acknowledged that some of the journals had been impacted by fraudulent studies, but attributed the closures to other factors, such as low submission rates.
The conclusions they reached were outrageous, like that there is "zero" chance of abuse of a child in a lesbian-headed household.
The Hart lesbians kind of blew that out of the water after they abused and murdered 6 adopted children.
I’ve encountered this several times durign my career but I had no idea it had gotten so bad. 11,300 retractions in 2 years is devastating. I worked in industry and we had a guy caught faking his data and he was disappeared overnight. Office locked, name removed from the door, ID cancelled, no one in management would talk about him. It’s more difficult to fake your results in industry because you are mostly working in teams. What you develop is applied to the larger project and if it doesn’t work as reported it’s quickly discovered.
Research is expensive.
There should be a government or corporate grant that enabled the research to be done.
I assume government grants can be traced.
My university lists the e-mail addresses of the professors of research department I worked for.
“Trust the science” has been fatally compromised and many will never trust them again.
The fact that “trans” is a thing and not stopped cold proves that “big” science is now a joke.
But, I’ve been assured by a science believer that peer review is the gold standard and it would catch fraudulent *studies*.
You get the $cience you pay for.
Published and perished.