Re:A dubious writing style emerging in science
by duskwuff on Wednesday August 11, 2021 @01:45PM
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Followup:
The phrase "underground creepy crawly", in isolation, appears to be unique to whatever text spinning tool is being used to generate these papers. A Google search for that phrase turns up dozens of suspicious papers full of other tortured phrases.
Notably, this phrase is not used by Spinbot. It only uses "insect" or "subterranean insect" as substitutes for "ant".
What all of these phrases have in common is that their words have been individually replaced with synonyms, with no regard to context. The author correctly identifies this behavior as characteristic of a text spinning service -- I've seen the same sort of thing frequently in spam.