Hmm. So is it actually the number of fraudullent papers that’s up, or is it the number of frauds that get caught?
A Record Number of Scientific Papers Were Retracted in 2023 For Being Fraudulent or a Having Conflicts of Interest
Submitted 7 months ago by theHRguy@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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nyan@lemmy.cafe 7 months ago
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Probably both considering that many people need these studies to return results to continue getting funded. At the same time, more academics than ever are excited about uncovering fraudulent work (imo).
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ironically, it will only get worse from journals and publishers cutting deals with LLM comanies.
FiskFisk33@startrek.website 7 months ago
good! the number of unrecorded instances is shrinking
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Its probably more to do with the emergence of LLMs and the growth in inequality.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Science and technology are developed to serve hegemony, not humanity, not even the researchers themselves.
These workers are just trying to survive under a brutal capitalist regime like anybody else.
yesman@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are two kinds of people, the kind who’ll read this and think, “This is science working”, and others who’ll think “Well, you can’t trust science”.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 7 months ago
No there are three. You missed the guy grumbling in the corner about academia being in shambles (in the US at least)
vzq@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m optimistic. It we’re at the beginning of the self-correction stage of the reproducibility crisis.
It’s not the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. But it could very well be the end of the beginning.