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Doug Bostrom<p>"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificIntegrity</span></a> <br><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420</span><span class="invisible">092122</span></a></p>
Pyrzout :vm:<p>Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackad</span><span class="invisible">ay-links-april-20-2025/</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/vegetativeelectronmicroscopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vegetativeelectronmicroscopy</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/HackadayColumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HackadayColumns</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/scientificfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificfraud</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Hackadaylinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hackadaylinks</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/hackadaylinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaylinks</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/biosignature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biosignature</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/antikythera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antikythera</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Zuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/crosswalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crosswalk</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/deep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deep</span></a>-fake <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanet</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/JamesWebb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JamesWebb</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/citation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citation</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/PaloAlto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaloAlto</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Slider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Slider</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/K2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>K2</span></a>-18b <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Kepler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kepler</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/tooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tooth</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/DMDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMDS</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/gear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gear</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/jwst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jwst</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://social.skynetcloud.site/tags/DMS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMS</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackad</span><span class="invisible">ay-links-april-20-2025/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/vegetativeelectronmicroscopy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vegetativeelectronmicroscopy</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaycolumns" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaycolumns</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/scientificfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificfraud</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hackadaylinks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hackadaylinks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/siliconvalley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>siliconvalley</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/biosignature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>biosignature</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/antikythera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>antikythera</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/zuckerberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zuckerberg</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/crosswalk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crosswalk</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/deep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deep</span></a>-fake <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanet</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jameswebb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jameswebb</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/citation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>citation</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/paloalto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>paloalto</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/slider" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slider</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/k2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>k2</span></a>-18b <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/kepler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kepler</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/tooth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tooth</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/dmds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dmds</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/gear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gear</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/jwst" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jwst</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>musk</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/dms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dms</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.</p><p>Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&amp;v=Q9tgyVPytBk" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr</span><span class="invisible">364Nzb4ta&amp;v=Q9tgyVPytBk</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ResearchIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchIntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/FrancescaGino" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrancescaGino</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HarvardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarvardUniversity</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Plagiarism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plagiarism</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/DataColada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataColada</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenerativeAI</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ChatBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChatBots</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a>: "We searched and scraped Google Scholar using the Python library Scholarly (Cholewiak et al., 2023) for papers that included specific phrases known to be common responses from ChatGPT and similar applications with the same underlying model (GPT3.5 or GPT4): “as of my last knowledge update” and/or “I don’t have access to real-time data” (see Appendix A). This facilitated the identification of papers that likely used generative AI to produce text, resulting in 227 retrieved papers. The papers’ bibliographic information was automatically added to a spreadsheet and downloaded into Zotero.</p><p>We employed multiple coding (Barbour, 2001) to classify the papers based on their content. First, we jointly assessed whether the paper was suspected of fraudulent use of ChatGPT (or similar) based on how the text was integrated into the papers and whether the paper was presented as original research output or the AI tool’s role was acknowledged. Second, in analyzing the content of the papers, we continued the multiple coding by classifying the fraudulent papers into four categories identified during an initial round of analysis—health, environment, computing, and others—and then determining which subjects were most affected by this issue (see Table 1). Out of the 227 retrieved papers, 88 papers were written with legitimate and/or declared use of GPTs (i.e., false positives, which were excluded from further analysis), and 139 papers were written with undeclared and/or fraudulent use (i.e., true positives, which were included in further analysis). The multiple coding was conducted jointly by all authors of the present article, who collaboratively coded and cross-checked each other’s interpretation of the data simultaneously in a shared spreadsheet file."</p><p><a href="https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/</span><span class="invisible">article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>GPT-fabricated scientific papers on Google Scholar: Features, spread, implications<br><a href="https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/</span><span class="invisible">article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation</span></a><br><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41477516" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4</span><span class="invisible">1477516</span></a></p><p>* many about applied, controversial topics susceptible to disinformation<br>* environment, health, computing<br>* resulting potential for malicious manipulation of society’s evidence base, particularly in politically divisive domains, a concern</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicJournals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificLiterature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificLiterature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FakeScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FakeScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GPT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>disinformation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GoogleScholar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoogleScholar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PostTruth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostTruth</span></a></p>
Paul Guinnessy<p>Should scientists who commit <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ResearchMisconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchMisconduct</span></a> that gave them prestige, money, and polluted future research, undermined the credibility of science, and may cause the deaths of millions of people face consequences. "The vast majority are never caught." <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Scientificfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scientificfraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://chris-said.io/2024/06/17/the-case-for-criminalizing-scientific-misconduct/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">chris-said.io/2024/06/17/the-c</span><span class="invisible">ase-for-criminalizing-scientific-misconduct/</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>I really enjoyed speaking on the ICSSI conference panel (icssi.org) on junk, fraud, retractions, and paper mills; we got lots of great questions and could have kept going all morning! Thanks to Daniel Larremore for the invite and especially Daniel Acuna for organising and chairing.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PaperMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaperMills</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ICSSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICSSI</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceofScience</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JournalPublication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalPublication</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Retractions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retractions</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>Here's an ICSSI talk close to my interests: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@sjcporter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sjcporter</span></a></span> of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/@digitalscience" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>digitalscience</span></a></span> explains how to find networks of faking by authorship selling schemes.</p><p>They're sold on Telegram and Facebook etc. Shout out to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/nickwizzo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>nickwizzo</span></a></span> who keeps track of these adverts and the final published papers.</p><p>🧵</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Authorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Authorship</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PaperMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaperMills</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ICSSI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ICSSI</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScienceofScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScienceofScience</span></a></p>
Matt Hodgkinson<p>Last year, Scopus blitzed all links to journal websites from their profiles in a clumsy reaction to their data being infiltrated by journal hijackers, i.e., fraudsters who pose as a real journal.</p><p>Did it work? No. They're still indexing hijacked content, notes Anna Abalkina on Retraction Watch.</p><p><a href="https://retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">retractionwatch.com/2024/06/18</span><span class="invisible">/journal-hijackers-still-infiltrate-scopus-despite-its-efforts/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Scopus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scopus</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/HijackedJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HijackedJournals</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PublicationEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PublicationEthics</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AnnaAbalkina" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnnaAbalkina</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/RetractionWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetractionWatch</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/AbstractingAndIndexing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbstractingAndIndexing</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/JournalPublication" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JournalPublication</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PredatoryJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryJournals</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/PredatoryPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryPublishing</span></a></p>
Auscandoc<p>“There is a large-scale industry of so-called “paper mills” that sell fictive research, sometimes written by artificial intelligence, to researchers who then publish it in peer-reviewed journals — which are sometimes edited by people who had been placed by those sham groups” <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/ResearchFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchFraud</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/@YvanDutil/112486855163219831" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mstdn.science/@YvanDutil/11248</span><span class="invisible">6855163219831</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Top Harvard Cancer researchers accused of scientific fraud; 37 studies falsified - Enlarge / The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. (credit: Getty |... - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1997993" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arstechnica.com/?p=1997993</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/scientificfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificfraud</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/danafarber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>danafarber</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/photoshop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photoshop</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a></p>
Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES<p>"There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit"</p><p>In this tell-all investigation by the reporters of The Guardian...</p><p>Breaking news! The Guardian retracted that story titled "There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit" According to some scientists, it was the result of fraud.</p><p><a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/TheGuardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheGuardian</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/satire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>satire</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://mast.yourautisticlife.com/tags/fraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fraud</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch</span></a></p>
Ebly Pamplemousse<p>There'll always be fraud; some people will always try to cheat the system. I suppose the question is, how to minimise it (and then, how to detect it).</p><p>This doesn't help:"Until publishing papers is decoupled from earning funding and employment, however, it’s difficult to imagine how much will change."</p><p>From the co-founders of Retraction Watch:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2023/aug/09/scientific-misconduct-retraction-watch</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificMisconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificMisconduct</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Can We Mathematically Spot Possible Manipulation of Results in Research Manuscripts Using Benford's Law?<br><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01742" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/abs/2307.01742</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Reproducibility of academic research is a persistent issue ... more concerning is the increasing number of false claims found in academic manuscripts recently</p><p>Our analysis predicted a 3% occurrence of result manipulation w. 96% CI. We find disturbing inconsistencies in recent studies &amp; offer a semi-automatic method for their detection.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BenfordsLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BenfordsLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a></p>
Dorothy Bishop<p>Deborah Mayo reflects on fraudsters in psychology, and the value of open data for tracking them down<br><a href="https://errorstatistics.wordpress.com/2023/07/04/a-new-generation-of-poster-children-of-fraud-in-behavioral-science-what-i-recommend-i/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">errorstatistics.wordpress.com/</span><span class="invisible">2023/07/04/a-new-generation-of-poster-children-of-fraud-in-behavioral-science-what-i-recommend-i/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openscience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scientificfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificfraud</span></a></p>
UKRIO<p>"Somebody should employ lots of people like [Elisabeth] Bik to check quality. However, “somebody should” is a dangerous phrase, because it could easily mean nobody will." - <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fediscience.org/@aidybarnett" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aidybarnett</span></a></span> of <span class="h-card"><a href="https://masto.ai/@aimos" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>aimos</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://theconversation.com/scientific-fraud-is-rising-and-automated-systems-wont-stop-it-we-need-research-detectives-206235" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theconversation.com/scientific</span><span class="invisible">-fraud-is-rising-and-automated-systems-wont-stop-it-we-need-research-detectives-206235</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ResearchIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchIntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/PaperMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaperMills</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a></p>
Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️<p>Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days<br><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/d41586-018</span><span class="invisible">-06185-8</span></a></p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230106140332/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2023010614</span><span class="invisible">0332/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06185-8</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.foxfam.club/@fermatslibrary" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fermatslibrary</span></a></span><br><a href="https://fermatslibrary.com/s/the-scientists-who-publish-a-paper-every-five-days#email-newsletter" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fermatslibrary.com/s/the-scien</span><span class="invisible">tists-who-publish-a-paper-every-five-days#email-newsletter</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioannidis" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ioa</span><span class="invisible">nnidis</span></a><br>Oy! Accomplished academic / tracker of scientific fraud YET "John Ioannidis has been a prominent opponent of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic." 🤨 😠</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicPublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicPublishing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FraudulentScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FraudulentScience</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PredatoryJournals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PredatoryJournals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JohnIoannidis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JohnIoannidis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PaperMills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaperMills</span></a></p>
UKRIO<p>Should researchers who are found to have committed research misconduct be given a second chance?</p><p>Dag Slotfeldt-Ellingsen says maybe, with preconditions:<br>"It will be crucial that the researcher is open and honest about his or her past and can prove to have the professional ethical knowledge and attitudes that the position requires." <br><a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-25484-0_25" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/chapter/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/978-3-031-25484-0_25</span></a></p><p>What do you think? </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ResearchMisconduct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchMisconduct</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ResearchIntegrity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResearchIntegrity</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/ScientificFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ScientificFraud</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/SecondChances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SecondChances</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/Poll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Poll</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/AcademicMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicMastodon</span></a></p>
Enrico Bucci<p>MACCHINE PER PRODURRE FRODI</p><p>Questo è uno dei ruoli che può assumere un agente conversazionale evoluto come ChatGPT, insieme a strumenti in grado di generare dati e immagini finti, applicato alla produzione di articoli scientifici falsi, ma utili a gonfiare i curriculum dei ricercatori.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/chatgpt3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>chatgpt3</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.science/tags/scientificfraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scientificfraud</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.ilfoglio.it/scienza/2023/01/18/news/ci-si-puo-fidare-dell-intelligenza-artificiale-applicata-alla-ricerca-scientifica-un-esperimento-4862794/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ilfoglio.it/scienza/2023/01/18</span><span class="invisible">/news/ci-si-puo-fidare-dell-intelligenza-artificiale-applicata-alla-ricerca-scientifica-un-esperimento-4862794/</span></a></p>