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That isn't going to happen. People have been submitting computer-generated BS to journals for years. Nobody ever loses their jobs because nobody in academia car
by nvm0n2 3y ago
That isn't going to happen. People have been submitting computer-generated BS to journals for years. Nobody ever loses their jobs because nobody in academia cares, the media almost never report on it and people continue to be fed a diet of pseudo-scientific research. There's no mechanism that will bring this to an end beyond the academic scientific institutions becoming completely discredited.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01436-7
"Nonsensical research papers generated by a computer program are still popping up in the scientific literature many years after the problem was first seen, a study has revealed"
They say "hundreds" but the actual scale of the problem is more like tens of thousands of identified papers and probably 10 or 100x more unidentified cases.
https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p=9999:1 https://dbrech.irit.fr/pls/apex/f?p=9999:1::::::