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Plenty of teens have legitimate papers. Probably not first author but it's not hard to believe that an IOM Medalist could contribute to a Mathematics paper or a
by adamsmith143 3y ago
Plenty of teens have legitimate papers. Probably not first author but it's not hard to believe that an IOM Medalist could contribute to a Mathematics paper or an Intel Science winner would contribute to a Biology paper e.g.
- AlanYx 3y agoThe tragedy here is that widespread abuses will water down the signal for those few high school students who do legitimately contribute to research. My wife worked in an academic hospital affiliated lab during her PhD, and every summer they had several of these children of lab friends "volunteering" as research assistants. Some were so colossally incompetent, messing up equipment or never showing up, etc. it was a net productivity loss.
- parpfish 3y agoThe "i have to volunteer so i can get into med school" crowd was the worst
- tgv 3y agoIf you think that's a good correlation, they can be accepted just by that fact.
- adamsmith143 3y ago>Seems ridiculous to me, why would teens even have peer-reviewed papers, or even papers, to their name? Pretty much only because of this scam - so an automatic 'fraud' signal IMHO. For reference the comment I was responding to implied that the ONLY way for a teen to be an author on a paper was because of this scam. I was pointing out that that is obviously not the case.