Ever since tobacco campaign of doubt, the sciencetific community was slowly destroyed by the corporatist regimes.
Internet is exposing these clowns finay but much damage has been done
There are two kinds of people, the kind who’ll read this and think, “This is science working”, and others who’ll think “Well, you can’t trust science”.
No there are three. You missed the guy grumbling in the corner about academia being in shambles (in the US at least)
I’m optimistic. I think we’re at the beginning of the self-correction stage of the reproducibility crisis.
It’s not the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. But it could very well be the end of the beginning.
Something about potential wide scale fraud came out recently about a prominent Alzheimer’s researcher. This article covers it quite well: https://www.science.org/content/article/research-misconduct-finding-neuroscientist-eliezer-masliah-papers-under-suspicion
It’s grim, especially when considering the real human cost that fraud in biomedical research has. Despite this, like you, I am also optimistic. This article outlines some of how the initial concerns about this researcher was raised, and how the analysis of his work was done. A lot of it seems pretty unorthodox. For example, one of the people who contributed to this work was a “non-scientist” forensic image expert, who goes by the username Cheshire on the forum PubPeer (his real name is known and mentioned in the article, but I can’t remember it).
but I can’t remember it
nice one! ;D
Oh I agree! I actually have another comment in this thread where I said I think that more people are excited about uncovering fraudulent work than ever before imo.
in academia, crimes against scientific integrity are considered particularly heinous. The dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious violations are members of an elite squad known as the Ph.D students. These are their stories.
Hmm. So is it actually the number of fraudullent papers that’s up, or is it the number of frauds that get caught?
Probably both considering that many people need these studies to return results to continue getting funded. At the same time, more academics than ever are excited about uncovering fraudulent work (imo).
Ironically, it will only get worse from journals and publishers cutting deals with LLM companies.
How many of them had pharmaceutical money behind them, I wonder.
All corpos paying for fake research
Some even able to get NIH type funding used too…
This clown leeching taxpayers dry
The irony
good! the number of unrecorded instances is shrinking
Its probably more to do with the emergence of LLMs and the growth in inequality. For what you said to be true would imply scientific journals are working harder, which is hard to imagine.
Science and technology are developed to serve hegemony, not humanity, not even the researchers themselves.
These workers are just trying to survive under a brutal capitalist regime like anybody else.