#academic-fraud — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, redefining heritability to fit your narrative, the classic academic sleight of hand 🤡. Just when you thought life span was a genetic lottery, they change the rules 📊🔮. Next up: how redefining "exercise" means eating chips counts as a workout 🏋️‍♂️🍟.
https://dynomight.net/lifespan/ #academicfraud #redefiningheritability #geneticlottery #exerciseparadox #lifehacks #HackerNews #ngated

A few more of these might plus publicity put off other frauds.

"Court orders historian to repay grant funding for “pattern of plagiarism” in books"

https://retractionwatch.com/2026/05/05/court-orders-historian-to-repay-grant-funding-for-pattern-of-plagiarism-in-books/

#AcademicFraud

A #study testing 13 #LLMs found that all can be used to commit #academicfraud or facilitate #junkscience. While some models, like Claude, were more resistant to fraudulent requests, others, like Grok and early GPT versions, performed poorly. The study highlights the need for developers to implement stronger #safeguards against #misuse of LLMs. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Nature: Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud. “Still, some LLMs performed better than others in the experiment, in which the models were given prompts to simulate users asking for help with issues ranging from genuine curiosity to blatant academic fraud. The most resistant to committing fraud, when asked repeatedly, were all versions of […]

As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.

"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."

#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraud

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R

@Eigenraum Das hätten sich vielleicht diese Autor*innen mal für das Erfinden der Daten in ihrem Paper besorgen sollen, dann wäre ihr #AcademicFraud auch nicht so aufgefallen: 😉
https://pubpeer.com/publications/96071D153BACA5405BAA66FCC09343

Ah, yes, the prestigious art of "speedrunning" through life 🍃. Because who wouldn't want to pay for a #diploma without actually learning anything? 🎓💸 Clearly, breaking academic systems over your knee is the new, avant-garde way to succeed! 💡👏
https://www.educationprogress.org/p/speedrun #speedrunninglife #academicfraud #mill #avantgarde #success #HackerNews #ngated

When impostor syndrome meets actual impostors: Scammers create perfect clones of 13+ academic journals, complete with cookie popups! They're putting more effort into faking research than most people put into actual research. Even included their own DOI system. A+ for effort, F for ethics. 🎓 #AcademicFraud #CyberSecurity

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/11/29/1534212/journal-scam-targets-top-science-publishers

Während #Clarivate Journals von #Elsevier auf hold stellt, weil offenbar von Paper Mills durchseucht, ist die Operation Klinkenputzen wieder voll im Schwange, ausgerechnet zum Thema #wissenschaftlichesFehlverhalten. Eine Einführung von echten Experten, da kann man nicht meckern. Aber was denkt man sich da in Dortmund eigentlich?

#academicfraud #surveillancepublishing

https://forschungsfoerderung.tu-dortmund.de/veranstaltungsprogramm/aktuelles-veranstaltungsprogramm/insights-into-ethics-in-academic-publishingwise24-25/

Integral Annihilation

https://eldraeverse.com/2024/10/13/integral-annihilation/

#academia #academicExultance #academicFraud #antidegree #eldraeverse #ficADay #judicialIncredibility #qualifications #truth #writing

Boingboing - #AcademicFraud endemic in published research, from photoshopped blots to AI slop:
https://boingboing.net/2024/09/28/academic-fraud-endemic-in-published-research-from-photoshopped-blots-to-ai-slop.html

Uncovering academic fraud through #OpenScience! 🕵️‍♀️ In my presentation at the Summer School ‘Open Science in Education and Research: EU Best Practices’, I dive into how transparency & collaboration are key to exposing modern scientific scandals.

👉 http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.20986.50880

#AcademicFraud #ResearchEthics #ResearchIntegrity #Transparency #Reproducibility

@simon_brooke @cyrilpedia

#LLMs #StochasticParrots #AcademicFraud

From the article ''Moreover, considering that Google Scholar has no real competitor, there is a strong case for establishing a freely accessible, non-specialized academic search engine that is not run for commercial reasons but for reasons of public interest.''

There is! Spread the word about #OpenAlex https://openalex.org/ and #BASEsearch https://www.base-search.net/

"Google Scholar’s central position in the publicly accessible scholarly communication infrastructure, as well as its lack of standards, transparency, and accountability in terms of inclusion criteria, has potentially serious implications for public trust in science. This is likely to exacerbate the already-known potential to exploit Google Scholar for evidence hacking (Tripodi et al., 2023)"

#LLMs
#StochasticParrots
#AcademicFraud

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

"Our analysis shows that questionable and potentially manipulative GPT-fabricated papers permeate the research infrastructure and are likely to become a widespread phenomenon"

#LLMs
#StochasticParrots
#AcademicFraud

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

"Moreover, considering that Google Scholar has no real competitor, there is a strong case for establishing a freely accessible, non-specialized academic search engine that is not run for commercial reasons but for reasons of public interest"

#LLMs
#StochasticParrots
#AcademicFraud

https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/gpt-fabricated-scientific-papers-on-google-scholar-key-features-spread-and-implications-for-preempting-evidence-manipulation/

#Science #AcademicPublishing #Retractions #AcademicFraud: "Cabanac lists the detector’s findings on his website, but elsewhere online — on the paper-review site PubPeer and on social media — he has explicitly flagged more than 1,700 papers that caught his eye because of their reliance on retracted work. Some authors have thanked Cabanac for alerting them to problems in their references. Others argue that it’s unfair to effectively cast aspersions on their work because of retractions made after publication that, they say, don’t affect their paper.

Retracted references don’t definitively show that a paper is problematic, notes Tamara Welschot, part of the research-integrity team at Springer Nature in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, but they are a useful sign that a paper might benefit from further scrutiny. (Nature’s news team is independent of its publisher, Springer Nature.)

Some researchers argue that retraction of references in a narrative review — which describes the state of research in a field — doesn’t necessarily invalidate the original paper. But when studies assessed by a systematic review or meta-analysis are withdrawn, the results of that review should always be recalculated to keep the literature up to date, says epidemiologist Isabelle Boutron at Paris City University."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02719-5

I now declare this bazaar opened!

#academicfraud #elsevier

The way it has references interspersed after each sentence reminds me of the Microsoft Bing Copilot bullshit bot.

#AI #academicfraud

@nadiah

Published in Elsevier journal ‘Surfaces and Interfaces’.

Best part was, when I followed the link, it made me do a Captcha to prove I wasn’t a bot 🤖

Paper here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2468023024002402

#AI #elsevier #publishing #academia #academicchatter #science #academicfraud

@tdverstynen @tzimmer_history @donmoyn
Boom. Misrepresented the provenance of his degree. ( #AcademicFraud , #EveryAccusationAConfession ):
https://newrepublic.com/article/170647/christopher-rufo-harvard-degree-misleading