Interesting read! The most disturbing part is not fraud scientists, I think there will always be a certain percentage of fraudsters in any field. The most distu

Interesting read! The most disturbing part is not fraud scientists, I think there will always be a certain percentage of fraudsters in any field. The most disturbing part is the 300+ citations, scientists who based their work off of an obviously garbage paper. It seems inescapable that the reason why must have been complete mathematical incompetency across the entire field. Say a psychologist partners with perhaps a chemist and uses some organic chemistry to 'prove' some critical point in a paper. I could imagine brushing over the details and citing the paper when any chemist would see the fraud as 'obvious'. Such is the complexity of cross discipline science I guess, and the reality that the sum total of human knowledge is beyond any individual's ability to grasp. That being said, knowing that some papers are utter garbage I should do my due diligence by taking a humble pill and reaching out to my colleague in the chem department across the street to tell me what this critical chemistry is about before I include it in my work.