California microbiologist Elisabeth Bik, 57, has been sleuthing for a decade. Based on her work, scientific journals have retracted 1,133 articles, corrected 1,017 others and printed 153 expressions of concern…
Incredible, she has some enemies.
Hahah what a hobby, using image processing and probably AI to check old papers that predated the tools. Kinda like using DNA to solve old crimes
Why do articles like this feel the need to include the blogger’s age?
To remind other 32+ year olds how little we’ve accomplished in our lives.
It’s how it made me feel :(
that was unnecessary, FeelsBadMan
I, 69, don’t know.
32s not even a notable age… If it were 17 or 85 I guess it’d be newsworthy but not 32
@bl4kers @floofloof I think it’s interesting that it’s just a 30 something dude.
The things he’s found aren’t super detective stuff either, he’s taken an interest, found a few pictures that look suspicious, looked some more and wrote about it. Something anyone can do.
I find that motivating.
Really embarrassing also for the journals that published the papers – and which are as guilty. They take ridiculously massive amounts of money to publish articles (publication cost for one article easily surpasses the cost of a high-end business laptop), and they don’t even check them properly?
Journals are the cancer of the science world
Why would they? They get the money. I feel like that system is just prime corruption/malpractice and leads to crap like this.
It’s for profit all the way through
You have a lot of shit in the journals. I read about autism for example. I can’t count how many article with restrain and basic human right abuse are published. And, it continues in 2024.
It’s seriously depressing to see this BS and other pseudo-scientific text published.
Oh, they don’t pay the peer reviewers. That would cut their profit margins waaaay too much.
That’s really embarrassing, but not surprising that a medical institution would lie and cheat. The profit motive is destroying scientific research.
If you find this interesting, the Freakonomics podcast just put out a really good series on academic fraud. I highly recommend it.
Seconding this recommendation! I caught parts of it on the radio last weekend and the week before. It was way more fascinating than I expected…
Thanks, found it.
I thought this was The Onion, at first. It’s every internet commenter’s dream headline!
I wanna do this detective work for a living!
Do they pay him though?
Someone could pay me. I just need enough for training, equipment, and living.
People still blog? People still read blogs?
Blogs are a good idea. We should go back to them instead of being dependent on social media.
Setting up RSS readers this week 🤓
no god please, i hate googling something and the first 12 results are all blogs that take forever to get to the point and then give a bad answer
i don’t think i could live any longer if i didn’t have “site:reddit.com” or “site:stackexchange.com” etc. to filter out most of the garbage
i hate googling something and the first 12 results are all blogs that take forever to get to the point and then give a bad answer
That’s because mass-produced/AI generated shit “content” has been winning the Search Engine Optimization cat and mouse game for a while now.
don’t use google.
I hope so because I am working on 2 of them. One for a dumb minecraft mod pack I am building and the other a mix mash of science topics ranging from tutoring resources, commentary on current events in science and on how science is reported in media.
Do you have analytics data? I’m curious how many visitors you get.
