Re:Science Vigilante Calls Out Bogus Results in Prestigious ...
by bayesian_horse on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:07AM
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Every fraudulent paper adds to the scientific noise rather than to the scientific information.
Not only are they wasting their own funding, they are also wasting other people's time and money who often can't afford to ignore prior work. At the very least such papers come up in peer review.
And apparently, fraudulent papers can get cited quite a lot in practice!
Not only are they wasting their own funding, they are also wasting other people's time and money who often can't afford to ignore prior work. At the very least such papers come up in peer review.
And apparently, fraudulent papers can get cited quite a lot in practice!