1/🧵 Fake Science is BIG Business💰💰
What’s a “paper mill?
📍>500 “fake science” papers are being retracted
📍“Paper Mills” create made-up papers, trick peer review
📍People pay for authorship to boost academic credentials
Let me explain
bit.ly/3WXnhDx
What’s a “paper mill?
📍>500 “fake science” papers are being retracted
📍“Paper Mills” create made-up papers, trick peer review
📍People pay for authorship to boost academic credentials
Let me explain
bit.ly/3WXnhDx
2/ In this example👇…
manipulated peer-review was proven & >500 papers are being pulled! 🤯
H/T Neuroscientist @Schrag_Matthew explained:
“It's a bad look for Wiley!”
Investigators found irregular reviewer activity & ‘bad actors’ across publications
bit.ly/3WXnhDx
manipulated peer-review was proven & >500 papers are being pulled! 🤯
H/T Neuroscientist @Schrag_Matthew explained:
“It's a bad look for Wiley!”
Investigators found irregular reviewer activity & ‘bad actors’ across publications
bit.ly/3WXnhDx
3/ As a Physician-Scientist at the bedside, it’s maddening & saddening to see people succumb to #misinformation
And then make choices that allow them to fall into severe life-threatening COVID and land in my ICU.
nyti.ms/3VHospA
And then make choices that allow them to fall into severe life-threatening COVID and land in my ICU.
nyti.ms/3VHospA
4/ How bad is COVID-Misinformation??
The @nytimes op-ed above states that in 1 month‼️ there were over half-million conspiracy theory tweets w 580,000 retweets & a surge of toxic material spawned by a film calling COVID vaccines “the greatest orchestrated die-off” in 🌍 history.
The @nytimes op-ed above states that in 1 month‼️ there were over half-million conspiracy theory tweets w 580,000 retweets & a surge of toxic material spawned by a film calling COVID vaccines “the greatest orchestrated die-off” in 🌍 history.
5/ Paper mills create huge numbers of papers using mixed datasets & fake data.
They change phrases to avoid plagiarism detection like using a tortured phrase like “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence”
CRAZY
bit.ly/3Z3qymL
They change phrases to avoid plagiarism detection like using a tortured phrase like “counterfeit consciousness” instead of “artificial intelligence”
CRAZY
bit.ly/3Z3qymL
6/ The fraud producers then sell off authorship for thousands of 💵
To ensure publication, they rig fake “suggested” journal reviewers they control
As an physician for 30 years diligently producing every data point & paper, it’s hard to imagine anyone sinking this low.
But…
To ensure publication, they rig fake “suggested” journal reviewers they control
As an physician for 30 years diligently producing every data point & paper, it’s hard to imagine anyone sinking this low.
But…
7/ I recently published 🧵👇on scientific misconduct
Friends, we are subject to so much UNTRUTH - be wary of where you get your information.
Especially in COVID times, we must be super careful not to be duped & put in harm’s way.
Friends, we are subject to so much UNTRUTH - be wary of where you get your information.
Especially in COVID times, we must be super careful not to be duped & put in harm’s way.
https://twitter.com/weselymd/status/1603145257771737088
8/ Sleuths like @MicrobiomDigest are devoting immense energy & talent into this fight toward research integrity.
Thank goodness!
They find 1,000s of articles potentially coming from paper mills.
go.nature.com/3Ck8lrs
Thank goodness!
They find 1,000s of articles potentially coming from paper mills.
go.nature.com/3Ck8lrs
9/fin
“It is embarrassing that so many papers are fake. Kudos when they admit they have been fooled.”
✔️Ultimately this is about #Ego & #Money
✔️It’s mainly (but not always) from lower tier journals
✔️Stay sharp in your reading
go.nature.com/3GbPWxU
“It is embarrassing that so many papers are fake. Kudos when they admit they have been fooled.”
✔️Ultimately this is about #Ego & #Money
✔️It’s mainly (but not always) from lower tier journals
✔️Stay sharp in your reading
go.nature.com/3GbPWxU
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