@SusanWillner

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By day I work in publications for the American Society of Nephrology where I get to dabble in XML, UI/UX, analytics, workflow and so much more. By night I'm a rabid Washington Capitals fan. And on the weekends, I bake, knit and go to thrift stores. Oh, and I don't like the Oxford or serial comma
@karabaic @ct_bergstrom @Hoch In search of a published article - I'll take a blog post - outlining why this preprint is so horrible. Are you working on anything or do you know of anything?

This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

https://www.science.org/content/article/fake-scientific-papers-are-alarmingly-common

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?

h/t @Hoch

Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common

But new tools show promise in tackling growing symptom of academia’s “publish or perish” culture