Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer
Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer
Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
Science is sometimes a meme:
They: "glyphosate-is-the-worlds-single-most-effective-greenhouse-gas-reduction-tool-reducing-co2-emissions-by-the-equivalent-of-removing-21-8-million-cars-off-the-road-each-year"
Me: wtf?
Acknowledgments: "The author acknowledges that funding to assist with undertaking this research was provided by the Crop Science Division of Bayer."
Me: ah, ok...
#Glyphosate #Bayer #Monsanto #Publication #Research #CO2 #Pesticides #FakeScience #CorpoScience #ScientistsForHire
This is mind boggling:
Death is the policy
"Under RFK Jr., ‘Make America Healthy Again’ means junk science like ‘survival of the fittest.’"
"In one of his own published books, Kennedy indicates that he does not believe in germ theory, instead subscribing to a version of the abandoned 19th century concept that the “miasma” is the source of disease."
#Antivax #Medicine #FakeScience #RFKJr #Vaccines #CDC #MMR #HHS #Miasma #GermTheory #BrainWorm #PublicSafety #Ignorance
https://www.theverge.com/health/661362/rfk-jr-measles-autism
The virus of fake science is spreading: LLMs are hallucinating references that scholars are citing, and editors of real scholarly journals are accepting in published articles.
Scholarly communication cannot function anymore without a reference authenticity check that determines whether works cited are authentic and actually support the claims they are cited for.
#publishing #reference #citation #integrity #fraud #LLM #AI #fakescience
Krasse Geschichte: https://nebula.tv/videos/notjustbikes-this-is-why-cycling-is-dangerous-in-america 🤯 (YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRPduRHBhHI ) 😱 von @notjustbikes – über die seit den 1970ern sehr einflussreichen #Propaganda-Märchen, #Lügen-Bücher und #PseudoWissenschaft des extrem #Fahrrad-feindlichen 🚳 "Radaktivisiten" 🤥 #JohnForester aus #Amerika. 👺 😠 🤮
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forester_(cyclist)
#NotJustBikes #USA #FakeScience #carbrain #Radwege #Fahrradwege #geschützteRadwege #geschützteFahrradwege #Radfahren #Blechterror #Scheißradfahrer #motorisierteGewalt #Mobilitätswende
This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.
#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud
Tips we get about papers and books citing fake references have skyrocketed this year, tracking closely with the rise of ChatGPT and other generative large language models. One in particular hit clo…