Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer

Une étude récente pointe un chiffre alarmant : plus de 250 000 articles scientifiques liés au cancer pourraient avoir été fabriqués de toutes pièces entre 1999 et 2024.

The Conversation
Les fausses publications scientifiques menacent de submerger la recherche contre le cancer

Une étude récente pointe un chiffre alarmant : plus de 250 000 articles scientifiques liés au cancer pourraient avoir été fabriqués de toutes pièces entre 1999 et 2024.

The Conversation
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Peer review has met its match.

The Atlantic
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Peer review has met its match.

The Atlantic

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

Death is the policy

RFK Jr.‘s measles response is junk science and social Darwinism.

The Verge

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.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

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

Not Just Bikes — This is Why Cycling is Dangerous in America

In the 60s and 70s, America experienced a "bike boom" and with it came a demand for safer bicycle infrastructure. So in the 1970s, one cyclist dedicated his life to cycling education ... and against bike lanes of any kind.

Nebula

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/springer-nature-flags-paper-with-fabricated-reference-to-article-not-written-by-our-cofounder/

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

Springer Nature flags paper with fabricated reference to article (not) written by our cofounder

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…

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