Path: ...!npeer.as286.net!npeer-ng0.as286.net!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!feeds.news.ox.ac.uk!news.ox.ac.uk!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: RonO Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Up to 1 in 7 research papers fabricated? Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 13:10:20 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: Reply-To: rokimoto557@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="81321"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:xPc3FverQewcVUOVJfrRyi+A7Cs= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id EC74C229782; Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:10:28 -0500 (EST) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A69C6229765 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2024 14:10:26 -0500 (EST) by moderators.individual.net (Exim 4.98) for talk-origins@moderators.isc.org with esmtps (TLS1.3) tls TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1tGjuC-000000009Pi-1yn0; Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:10:24 +0100 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature ECDSA (P-256)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eternal-september.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C21D5F8E1 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2024 19:10:22 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: name/4C21D5F8E1; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=gmail.com id 88D6FDC01A9; Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:10:21 +0100 (CET) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2024 20:10:21 +0100 (CET) Content-Language: en-US X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1+R+7saWeW+TIRqxJHw4/muJ8xwQnaOojk= FREEMAIL_FORGED_REPLYTO,FREEMAIL_REPLYTO_END_DIGIT, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_BLOCKED,RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_IN_WELCOMELIST,USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 smtp.eternal-september.org Bytes: 3129 https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril A researcher wanted to do a meta review evaluation of his research interest and came up with hundreds of papers when he only expected around 60. Most of them were likely fabricated from paper mills. This sounds pretty sad. The ID perps almost never publish their junk in real journals, but it sounds like there are a lot of journals out there that would be happy to publish the IDiotic junk. Ron Okimoto