This week, Science published a stunningly irresponsible news story entitled "Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common" and claiming that upward of 30% of the scientific literature is fake.
Headline and intro notwithstanding, the story itself later notes that the detector doesn't actually work and flags nearly half of real papers as fake. Does the reporter just not understand that?
This is wild, because there is no goddamn way in hell I would ever submit a paper with this shoddy of a research design, unless I was a complete idiot, or actively trying to push a specific agenda that I knew couldn't be defended.
I legitimately cannot imagine the absolute caucasity to write, submit, edit, proof, and then publish this trash. Unbelievable. By their OWN INFO, it has a false positivity rate of 44%?!? Absolute TRASH.
Lange habe ich drüber nachgedacht, nun ist es so weit: #psychoSoph bekommt eine #KoFi-Seite, auf der ihr den Comic unterstützen könnt! ✨ Was gibt es dort? 🧵
I’ve been thinking about it for a very long time and here it is: #psychoSoph has a #KoFi page now where you can support the comic! ✨ What waits for you there? 🧵
You can just follow me, give a one-time tip (or every time a chapter goes online) or even get a membership where you support me monthly. 🧠 With this you help me keep the psychoSoph website running.
How do people with #populist views of #science inform themselves and communicate about it? 🔬
In our new study, @mss7676@j_metag and I find: Science-related populists prefer #TV and social networking sites, and are more likely to comment scientific content online. But they don’t avoid journalistic media in general, so they don’t ‘disconnect’ from science 🪢🔬
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1515/commun-2022-0059#OpenAccess
The gist: We treat science as a weak-link problem (in which we fear opening the gates to the worst stuff) when when it's properly a strong-link problem (in which we should fear closing the gates to the best stuff).
#Introduction
Hi Mastodon. I work for #OpenAccess to research in all fields and regions. Formerly directed the Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication. Now semi-retired but still working for the cause.