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So much for “peer review” — Wiley shuts down 19 science journals and retracts 11,000 gobbledygook papers
JoNova ^ | 05/27/2024

Posted on 05/27/2024 10:48:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 05/27/2024 10:48:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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SOURCE:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-peer-reviewed-papers

The publisher Wiley has confessed that fraudulent activities have rendered 19 of its journals so compromised that they must be shuttered. In response, the industry is developing AI tools to detect these fakes, a necessary yet disheartening development.


2 posted on 05/27/2024 10:50:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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In December 2023, Nature posted that more than 10,000 papers were retracted in 2023 -- a new record.


3 posted on 05/27/2024 10:51:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Bookmark


4 posted on 05/27/2024 10:56:15 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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In response, the industry is developing AI tools to detect these fakes, a necessary yet disheartening development.


using AI to detect articles written by AI. How does that work?


5 posted on 05/27/2024 10:56:44 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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Betcha if there are N published “climate change” papers, the number of papers that are fake are at least 10x N.


6 posted on 05/27/2024 10:57:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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Now do climate change.


7 posted on 05/27/2024 10:58:37 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: SeekAndFind

This article reveals the scam of false peer review, but even the world of ‘legit’ peer review is controlled by the Mean Girls of the research community.

There is no fix, outside of a complete burning to the ground.


8 posted on 05/27/2024 11:00:13 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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The rot at Wiley started decades ago, but it got caught when it spent US $298 million on an Egyptian publishing house called Hindawi.


https://www.hindawi.com/publish-research/


9 posted on 05/27/2024 11:05:06 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: GOPJ; poconopundit; Jane Long; Diana in Wisconsin; Grampa Dave; Godzilla; Vaduz; null and void; ...

Your tax dollars at work.


10 posted on 05/27/2024 11:06:49 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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Yup.
“Science” has been a joke for awhile.
It’s almost a full religion now, just look at how they act when you disagree on global warming or the covid jab.


11 posted on 05/27/2024 11:08:33 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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“,,,in Kuthu’s name…”


12 posted on 05/27/2024 11:10:36 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: SeekAndFind

This is too good:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair


13 posted on 05/27/2024 11:11:17 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (לעזאזל עם חמאס)
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Bttt.

5.56mm


14 posted on 05/27/2024 11:13:48 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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Pretty much!


15 posted on 05/27/2024 11:14:21 AM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: SeekAndFind
Once upon a time peer reviewers tried to duplicate the results of the papers. Now most are little more that glorified grammar checkers. But if they start checking others' research then theirs might be checked too, those destroying the entire governmental-academic complex.

From President Eisenhower's farewell address:

The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.

Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite.


16 posted on 05/27/2024 11:18:23 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like the author used AI to write the article. Since when has anyone, let alone an employee, referred to ABC as “The ABC”


17 posted on 05/27/2024 11:21:24 AM PDT by RainMan ((Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861))
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To: SeekAndFind

Not surprised that the shuttered journals are from the Indian publisher Hindawi acquired by Wiley. I expect most serious Wiley journals still have reliable peer review.


18 posted on 05/27/2024 11:21:47 AM PDT by The people have spoken (Proud member of Hillary's basket of deplorables)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wrote a lot of technical papers in the late 70s up until the mid 90s. It was tough, grueling work writing a quality paper about our research results.

Was I ever a sucker! I could have increased my paper output by 100X with the right “tools” doing the work for me.


19 posted on 05/27/2024 11:32:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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“Your tax dollars at work.”

Yep. It all leads back to government funded research, doesn’t it?


20 posted on 05/27/2024 11:33:38 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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