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the entire industry of scientific paper lifecycle is a horrid mess, a poisoned well that must be destroyed. There are multiple paths as far garbage papers, lik
by WaitWaitWha 2y ago
the entire industry of scientific paper lifecycle is a horrid mess, a poisoned well that must be destroyed.
There are multiple paths as far garbage papers, like not reading what is cited, LLM generated content, data falsification, buying a spot on a paper like this article describes, and so on.
Authors produce garbage papers. Peer reviewers do not review. Journals demand large amounts of monies to publish and read. Researchers do not read, therefore cite garbage papers. This results in wrong results, authoring garbage papers. Rinse, repeat.
I do not know how to fix this, considering the vast amount of garbage papers already published. How do we filter them out?
- Ekaros 2y agoIt all comes down to funding... But fixing that would lead to other problems like nepotism "thought" leaders steering most of the funding to their pet directions. Possibly ignoring solid science or other research avenues. Maybe we just need to cut down number of participants in some way.
- Der_Einzige 2y agoWhat do we do about the wide scale data fraud/falsification at top conferences like NeurIPS? It’s a toss up on any paper on if their results are real or not, and like it or not, I think many authors of the papers know that and make it harder on purpose to “reproduce” their work.