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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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To: SeekAndFind
<>"Big Government and Big Money has captured science and strangled it."<>

It has been over 20 years since my favorite science magazine, Scientific American, went over to the dark side thanks to government money to promote the Climate Change hoax.

Sure miss my favorite hobby!

Oh well, harmonica is fun anyway.

61 posted on 05/28/2024 7:00:41 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The yoke of government must be kept light if Freedom is to Prevail.)
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To: Red Badger

Rats. I suppose that means they might not take a paper from me on the health benefits of smoking cigarettes. (Rising obesity in America can be correlated with the decline in cigarette consumption).


62 posted on 05/28/2024 7:25:17 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: SeekAndFind

Quite frankly, I’ve had serious questions about Physical Review for several years...

There has not been any significant new fundamental physics since the 1960s...
It appears a though computers have replaced the human brain, thereby eliminating “original” thought...

In addition, nowadays, DEI is a factor in preparing & reviewing submissions for publication and a large proportion of physics publications look more like the publication of a telephone directory...


63 posted on 05/28/2024 7:42:18 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: Eleutheria5

LOL, good one!


64 posted on 05/28/2024 8:08:10 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: SeekAndFind
I'm interested in the titles of the, ahem, "recalled" papers.

Subjects such as math and reading techniques in education, homosexuality (including actual percentages of population and determinant of and treatments for trans young persons, and also effective penology (prisons, etc), climate change, economic models, medical studies (epidemiological and pharmacological, especially re mRNA safety and efficacy--anything funded by big pharma). Other titles come to mind, but these are the ones to examine first.

65 posted on 05/28/2024 8:16:30 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: KarlInOhio

Thanks for posting this. Ike was an amazing person/POTUS!

“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 5/27/2024, 11:18:23 AM by KarlInOhio


66 posted on 05/28/2024 8:21:59 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it!” )
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To: SeekAndFind
Careful with this stuff. This story almost sounds like an advertisement for Wiley's new Papermill Detection service. "Hey, the service helped us find thousands of bogus papers. It can help you weed them out as well!"

Up to one in seven submissions to hundreds of Wiley journals flagged by new paper mill tool

As for the fact that scholarly journals publish a lot of junk science--I think everyone on this site has known that for decades now.
67 posted on 05/28/2024 8:27:58 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

Tom Lehrer was way ahead of us...”Just remember please to call it “research!”

https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?&q=nikolai+%3bobchevsky+is+is+nametom+lehrer+plagiarize+song&&mid=4ED0B4F4C9409C1666514ED0B4F4C9409C166651&&FORM=VRDGAR


68 posted on 05/28/2024 4:57:54 PM PDT by mdmathis6 (A horrible historic indictment: Biden Democrats plunging the world into war to hide their crimes!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This explains a lot...

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/wly/institutional-holdings

Check out the top names. They should ring a bell.


69 posted on 05/29/2024 3:54:18 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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On a related note, from last fall...

Dallas-based online education firm scoops up Wiley’s University Services for $150 million The transaction is expected to close in early 2024.

Interesting timing.

70 posted on 05/29/2024 3:57:35 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

For me, it was more like thirty years ago - when this fella grabbed the helm!

John Rennie, seventh editor-in-chief (1994–2009)


71 posted on 05/29/2024 4:02:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: mewzilla
From January 2021...

Wiley Announces the Acquisition of Hindawi A Global Leader in Research and Education Accelerates its Strategy to Power the World’s Knowledge Ecosystem by Acquiring a Fast-Growing Innovator in Open Access

Again, note the timing.

72 posted on 05/29/2024 4:04:12 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla; nickcarraway; ransomnote; Jane Long
One more, from September of 2021...

China's Higher Education Press and Wiley sign partnership agreement

Pinging you in case you should find this and my above of interest.

73 posted on 05/29/2024 4:06:40 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Cochrane. Now Wiley...

Not a coinkydink, is it...


74 posted on 05/29/2024 4:10:06 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Elsie
More a molestation that a grab.

I hate that guy.

75 posted on 05/29/2024 6:35:37 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The yoke of government must be kept light if Freedom is to Prevail.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
He is a bit...

...what shall we say?



76 posted on 05/29/2024 5:49:33 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: faithhopecharity

“Optimising the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. (Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition)”

I have a text thread of me and a buddy discussing how marketing and treat R&D would come about creating the perfect cat shit flavored dog treat. That submission you posted gave me a guffaw! Somebodies gonna have to take one for the team in R&D... ARF! Scariest part would be if the tester people were all “so THIS is why they’re always rooting around in the litter box and play sand!” LOL


77 posted on 05/29/2024 6:29:30 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: faithhopecharity

“Optimising the sensory characteristics and acceptance of canned cat food: use of a human taste panel. (Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition)”

I have a text thread of me and a buddy discussing how marketing and treat R&D would come about creating the perfect cat shit flavored dog treat. That submission you posted gave me a guffaw! Somebodies gonna have to take one for the team in R&D... ARF! Scariest part would be if the tester people were all “so THIS is why they’re always rooting around in the litter box and play sand!” LOL


78 posted on 05/29/2024 6:33:17 PM PDT by Axenolith (Here... Hold my beer and check this out...)
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To: Axenolith

many cats we’ve known recognize just how krappy most cat foods are....and won’t eat them

local cats’ diet:
1. $18/pound premium DeliCATessan roast turkey
2. salmon
3. tuna fish
4. the most expensive (only) kibble
5. rotisserie chicken

things they won’t eat at all:
1. cheap sandwich type sliced turkey
2. Costco kibble (it is cheaper by far but it is also the ONLY Costco product that fails ... the cats take one sniff and march away)


79 posted on 05/29/2024 7:46:30 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Elsie
Further comment would violate our high standards here at FR.

😉

80 posted on 05/30/2024 4:16:39 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The yoke of government must be kept light if Freedom is to Prevail.)
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