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I wish they had kept the method secret. Getting these papers retracted is less valuable than being able to secretly keep tabs on them.
by im3w1l 5y ago
I wish they had kept the method secret. Getting these papers retracted is less valuable than being able to secretly keep tabs on them.
- _Microft 5y agoIf they are not retracted, they might get cited by other works which themselves might get cited. Suddenly this faked, nonexistent research has been "laundered" into mainstream and nobody knows anymore that there was a problem in the first place.
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoI’m wondering what happened to good old reading with comprehension. Ain’t nobody got no time for that? If so, doesn’t it make those papers worthless?
- eecc 5y agoNope. Time is the only non-fungible asset being burned here and everyone is desperately defending their own allotment.
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoThen can we at least draw a border around such "science" so that serious people who have work to do know to not waste time with it?
- wmf 5y agoWe already know which venues are legit (because we've heard of them) and which aren't (because we haven't).
- waterhouse 5y agoWhat would be cool is if they'd figured out two methods, and only published one. Though if they've published a convenient list of the bad papers, then, assuming other markers exist, that makes it easy for others to discover them.
- bonniemuffin 5y agoMaybe they did.
- twirlock 5y ago>how to excuse an intelligentsia which manages the public by simply lying its ass off