Posted on 02/04/2024 9:00:31 AM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
Nicholas Wise is a fluid dynamics researcher who moonlights as a scientific fraud buster, reports Science magazine. And last June he "was digging around on shady Facebook groups when he came across something he had never seen before."
Wise was all too familiar with offers to sell or buy author slots and reviews on scientific papers — the signs of a busy paper mill. Exploiting the growing pressure on scientists worldwide to amass publications even if they lack resources to undertake quality research, these furtive intermediaries by some accounts pump out tens or even hundreds of thousands of articles every year. Many contain made-up data; others are plagiarized or of low quality. Regardless, authors pay to have their names on them, and the mills can make tidy profits.
But what Wise was seeing this time was new. Rather than targeting potential authors and reviewers, someone who called himself Jack Ben, of a firm whose Chinese name translates to Olive Academic, was going for journal editors — offering large sums of cash to these gatekeepers in return for accepting papers for publication. "Sure you will make money from us," Ben promised prospective collaborators in a document linked from the Facebook posts, along with screenshots showing transfers of up to $20,000 or more. In several cases, the recipient's name could be made out through sloppy blurring, as could the titles of two papers. More than 50 journal editors had already signed on, he wrote. There was even an online form for interested editors to fill out...
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At our company we have on occasion tried to replicate experiments from expired patents.
From almost 30 years of experience doing this I would guess that somewhere around 20%-30% of the patents are bogus.
Fake news. Trump is still talking about the billions saved worldwide by operation warp speed. It was based on experts like these and the presidential commendation awarded Fauci.
You can trust them. Lockdowns and vaxxes saved us all…. According to Trump.
On a related note, Harvard ex-president Claudine Gay wants to know the website address of that paper mill.
Probably closer to 30% to 50% now!
Ruling class science as an institution is corrupt from top to bottom.
Trump’s a builder not a scientist or engineer. He was naive. Also they used his “germophobia **” to manipulate him. He was naive about other things in the government too. He thought he was dealing with professionals and it wasn’t true from the Pentagon to CDC to his own WH staff. Hopefully he knows better now. I still think he needs to admit he was scammed and walk those COVID mistakes back.
** It’s been reported multiple times. Maybe it’s circular reporting but I haven’t seen it categorically denied anywhere.
You can imagine a situation where - over time - these “firms” that “churn out fake papers” to support substandard scholars like Claudine Gay will end up being the real universities that do the real research, all to support the illusion that the affirmative action appointments in the “prestige universities” can cut it.
which explains why the patent was allowed to expire.
14 days to flatten the curve was settled science, too.
“** It’s been reported multiple times. Maybe it’s circular reporting but I haven’t seen it categorically denied anywhere.”
Don’t waste your time arguing with it. It’s a deranged Trump hater.
Give it a rest, lady.
That or just say you’re voting for Biden. Because at this point it’s one or the other. So pick a damned side already.
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Trust the science.
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