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There are two things that you should put into perspective when seeing these numbers. 1- The article give pure numbers and does not report ratios. So when they

There are two things that you should put into perspective when seeing these numbers. 1- The article give pure numbers and does not report ratios. So when they report > Last year, more than 10,000 research papers were retracted, marking an all-time high The source is nature publication and while it gives rate of retraction per year it doesn't show the ratios. So if this is 10,000 out of 5M or 10,000 out of 10M is huge different. Yes in both cases it will be a problem but also there are no information about re-traction cause. There is no statistics on cause of re-traction. Not every retraction is necessarily because of fraud. Actually in the nature paper they reported the retraction rate (without any other information) to be 0.2% in 2022 but again without more information. 2- calling it epidemic is clickbait title. Depending on retraction as a measurement of fraud problem in science is subjective. There are problems with citations, paper mills and many other things. But you can't put all of these things into one basket. Retraction is a standard process that even legitimate researchers are using sometimes to fix problems with the paper ranging from discovering malfunction device after publication to method not working. Associating retraction with fraudulent activity only would mean that a researcher wouldn't use it if the perception that if you do it yourself then you are trying to cover something or you have ethical problems.

pvaldes 3y ago
> 2- calling it epidemic is clickbait title This shouldn't be treated as a mathematical problem. The consequence of just one of this 10.000 articles can lead to thousands being killed or suffering traumatic useless treatments that seem designed by sadists. A single article and people still are told decades later that vaccines cause autism. Other, and parents will start believing that bleach enemas will cure their autistic children. Other and millions of dollars will be lost. Spreads like fire and is simply evil. And when you'll eventually convince everybody that those ideas are nonsense you'll have still 9997 fake articles more to fix.

pvaldes 3y ago

> 2- calling it epidemic is clickbait title This shouldn't be treated as a mathematical problem. The consequence of just one of this 10.000 articles can lead to thousands being killed or suffering traumatic useless treatments that seem designed by sadists. A single article and people still are told decades later that vaccines cause autism. Other, and parents will start believing that bleach enemas will cure their autistic children. Other and millions of dollars will be lost. Spreads like fire and is simply evil. And when you'll eventually convince everybody that those ideas are nonsense you'll have still 9997 fake articles more to fix.