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Re:Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on delibera... by themitigating on Monday July 25, 2022 @06:38AM (#32222661)
"3. The first response of journals and universities on being informed of fraud is to turn around and tell the fraudster everything, so there's no way to keep fraud detection techniques secret."

Do all of them do this?

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Re:Two decades of Alzheimer’s research was based on delibera... by origin_path on Monday July 25, 2022 @04:27PM (#32230465)
Yeah. Academic culture is totally broken, they institutionally assume at every level that everyone is honest and fraud doesn't exist. Therefore if someone points out problems with a paper or its data, it must be merely a mistake and the civilized thing to do is ask for a correction.

There appear to be no limits to how absurd this phenomenon can get. Here's an example:

https://pubpeer.com/publications/7611C2EEE5789028895D8BD02A1...

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