Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

Science.org ^ | May 9, 2023 | Jeffrey Brainard

[Oystir]

A website called “retraction watch” gives a clue of the numbers

[Recompennation]

Review by colleagues is gone along with the first amendment. Getting any dissenting truths out meets dissent itself.

[HollyB]

Recall when The Lancet and The Imperial College of London both published the expected Covid deaths early into the ‘pandemic’. The sensationalized and exaggerated numbers in those papers lead to inappropriate policies, not just in the US, but across the globe.

[sauropod]

I remember Allan Sokol’s papers. Classic.

[ealgeone]

have a friend with a phd in meteorology. he said he could get all the funding he wanted as long as the work was tied in to climate change.

[Reily]

There is no reward mechanism for professors and students in the universities for replicating and verifying past research work. This article demonstrates that.

[SunkenCiv]

• Science is imploding: The enterprise is now hopelessly compromised by politics [05/09/2023]

[AndyTheBear]

Centralized planning always runs into problems whether its running an economy or doling out research grants.

[TBP]

Trust the science!