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The Starmaker wrote:
The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists...
Go to first: https://www.drudgereport.com/
then click the headline
The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists...
dat will pass the paywall of WSJ article.
Those of yous that already
have the knowhow:
https://www.wsj.com/science/data-colada-debunk-stanford-president-research-14664f3?mod=hp_lead_pos8
Here are a few excepts:
https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/27/nearing-5000-retractions-a-review-of-2022/
https://datacolada.org/
https://datacolada.org/109
https://pubpeer.com/
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2013-25331-001
Retraction Watch, which with research organization
Crossref keep a log of some 50,000 papers discredited over the past
century,
https://retractionwatch.com/ https://www.crossref.org/images/blog/2023/sample-record-retraction-watch-border.png
�If you take the sleuths out of the equation,� Oransky said, �it�s very difficult to see how most of these retractions would have happened.�
"Bad data goes undetected in academic journals largely because the
publications rely on volunteer experts to ensure the quality of
published work, not to detect fraud. Journals don�t have the expertise
or personnel to examine underlying data for errors or
deliberate manipulation, said Holden Thorp, editor in chief of the
Science family of journals."
"Bik and others said it can take months or years for journals to resolve complaints about suspect studies. Of nearly 800 papers that
Bik reported to 40 journals in 2014 and 2015 for running misleading
images, only a third had been corrected or retracted five years later,
she said."
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/think-of-the-implications-of-publishing
"Not many would remember the intellectual hoax in 1996 that exposed our academic research industry, particularly in the humanities.
Math and physics Professor Alan Sokal�s paper, "Transgressing the
Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity,"
was
published by a leading academic journal in North America despite being
nothing more than a bunch of highfalutin nonsense.
Sokal and Jean Brimont�s book Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern
Intellectuals' Abuse of Science is worth a read to understand how the
use of
incomprehensible jargon can quickly develop an aura of academic
respectability around mediocre talent."
"As a scientist who co-authored papers in 80 different journals, the
most painful experiences that I had were two instances in which someone
else published my work as their own.
In one case the supposed author--who I had never heard of-- merely
reworded a few sentences slightly and got the paper republished the
paper under his name.
In the other case, I knew the theoretical physicist author who
published my experimental discovery as his own work, and
also used my name fraudulently to help get a National Science Foundation
grant. Afterwards he NSF called me a few times about
formally investigating his actions, but to my knowledge it never did."
--
The Starmaker -- To question the unquestionable, ask the unaskable,
to think the unthinkable, mention the unmentionable, say the unsayable,
and challenge the unchallengeable.
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