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How Corporations Control Scientific Knowledge
As a biologist, I’ve watched firsthand as “Science™” replaced genuine discovery in various fields, turning once-vibrant laboratories into echo chambers of conformity. This shift isn’t merely an academic problem; it’s a public safety crisis that affects everyone, from policymakers to everyday citizens who rely on accurate, unbiased scientific information for informed decisions about their health and environment. The consequences of prioritizing brand over substance have led to policy decisions that disregard true scientific inquiry, often with devastating effects. It’s essential that we re-embrace the core principles of curiosity and critical thinking, ensuring that genuine discovery can flourish once again in the pursuit of knowledge and safety for all.
We are living in a system where:
- Scientists provide free labor for massive corporate publishers.
- Corporations own the results, gatekeeping knowledge behind paywalls.
- Everyday policies from the food we eat to the medicines we are prescribed are based on research funneled through this profit-first filter.
What many people, including scientists, may not realize is that Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine Maxwell and friend of Jeffrey Epstein) perfected a parasitic model decades ago. He understood that by controlling academic journals, you control the “truth” that lawmakers and the public depend on, shaping opinions and driving agendas for personal benefit instead of genuine scientific research. This manipulation goes beyond just publications; it affects funding, favors certain studies, and can even hide important findings that could challenge the existing norms.
We need to address the harmful impact of the “Magic Money Tree” on science and how it influences our lives by hiding important truths under financial interests that distort research results. This flawed system questions the reliability of scientific studies and misleads the public on crucial issues. By promoting stories that favor powerful financial backers, we allow important alternative views to be ignored. It’s essential to examine how these financial motives shape the information we receive and to push for a more open discussion that values diverse perspectives and bold ideas.
👉 Read the full investigation on my Substack
Science Unfiltered: Keeping Truth Accessible
Independent Work Requires Independent Support
As a scientist who has moved outside the traditional establishment to escape the “Maxwell Blueprint” and the corruption of mainstream publishing, my research is now driven by truth—not gatekeepers. I have made it my mission to keep this work public and accessible to everyone, but being a truly independent voice means I no longer have the safety net of the system I left behind.
Currently, this project relies on a tiny, dedicated fraction of its readers. If you believe that rigorous, honest science should exist in a world that would prefer it stayed hidden, I am asking you to stand with me.
How you can fuel this independent research:
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Translate Science invites you to our first PREreview Club live review! We'll be meeting online Tuesday, May 26, 2026 from 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM UTC. Participants who choose to be Review Authors will also collaborate asynch to finalize a constructive peer review.
We'll be reviewing Galip Kartal, Ali Karakaş. Mapping Research on Global Englishes: A Bibliometric Analysis, 14 April 2026, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9393872/v1]
RSVP on Mobilizon with your email:
https://mobilizon.picasoft.net/events/a6cff069-c166-4bb8-b0d4-c7e844a4e7ff
#OpenScience #PeerReview #translation #GlobalEnglish #bibliometrics
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ScreenIT : quand l’automatisation du #PeerReview se met au service de la #ScienceOuverte
👉 Réflexions d'une postdoc sur la possibilité d'utiliser les outils automatisés de la communauté #ScreenIT pour analyser des articles et identifier ceux dont les méthodes sont suffisamment solides et transparentes -
AI-generated reference errors are increasingly entering scientific papers, with tens of thousands of 2025 publications potentially affected. The issue is shifting from simple citation mistakes to fully fabricated sources.
🌐 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00969-z
#ArtificialIntelligence #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchPublishing #PeerReview #OpenScience
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📬 A new issue of the 2026 PREreview Champions interview series is out!
The spotlight this week is on Carlos Herold Junior. Hear about his takeaways from the program, and learn what he and his colleagues are doing to promote #OpenScience in Brazil.
https://content.prereview.org/an-interview-with-prereview-champion-carlos-herold-junior/
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Some weeks ago I accepted a review request from a prestige journal (in a small field). I found the abstract interesting, but had hesitations due to poor experience with editorial process as an author with this journal, and since it was an El$evier journal (which I try to avoid doing free work for).
Now the deadline review is approaching, and the study was less interesting than assumed, has no data available, poor transparency, typos that should have been weeded out in the review process, and I'm regretting my decision. I will fortify my review policy for the future!
#AcademicChatter #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #elsevier #OpenScience
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Digital watermarking in peer review: ICML 2026 rejected 2% of submissions after catching LLM misuse.
A new tool to safeguard research integrity.
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00893-2
#AIEthics #peerreview #AcademicIntegrity #artificialintelligence #ResearchEthics #LLM
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#NotNews24 | #UnbreaklingBluebellSeasonNotNews; #IT's #DefinitelyNotNews and #SomeWeather...
#IT's a #LittleBit #GreyAndOvercast in #TheOutside; #So...
#MyLittleBigBuddy has #PoppedAlong to #TheShed to #HitThingsWithHammers for a #LittleWhile... He’ll get #AGoodSweat on #ForSure…
#TheBFF is #SafelyEnsconced with #AnotherGoodBook; #So, I can #Write #MyOwn...
We have #SomeInitialProofs for #TheFrontCover of #MyLittleLadyBirdBookOfPsychoBabble...
#IT's #NotRecommended to #ReadIT in #Isolation; #IT should be #UsedInConjunction with #MedicalProfessionals #Subject to #PeerReview; #Because...
#That's #HowScienceWorks...
#Anyways... #DontPanic; #You can #AlwaysUse #AnotherGPTChatBot to #Diagnose a #PracticalTherapy for #YourMentalHealth #MentalDisorder
#AsYouWere... #KeepOnKeepingOn
#TryNot to #UpsetTheVolcano and #RememberTheRules; #TheNewRules…
🧙🌋🤖:wolfparty:🤖🌋🧙 | :fediverse:🦹:PirateBadge:🦄:PirateBadge:🦹:fediverse:
#BeingScottish #BeingSpanish #AlsoBeingFrench #BeMoreViking #BeingEuropean #BeingLegal #EULaw
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If I review one manuscript and then review the revised version/s, how many manuscripts have I reviewed?
#AcademicChatter
#AcademicLife
#AcademicMastodon
#PeerReview
#Science
#ScienceMastodon
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English – The Conversation | Plagiarised research passed automated tests, and I detected it – but only because it copied my work by Carolyn Heward, Senior lecturer, Clinical Psychology, James Cook University
Earlier this year, I published a paper on the ethics of researching military populations.
The core argument was straightforward: the standard rules researchers follow to protect participants – for example, informed consent and voluntary participation – don’t work the same in an institution built on hierarchy and obedience.
A soldier can, as protected by ethics, say no to participating in research. But when their commanding officer has nominated them, the practical reality of saying no is very different from the legal right to do so. My paper explored the tension between ethical rights and lived reality.
From factual errors to reproduced memos
A lucky catch
A deeper concern
#defencementalhealth #peerreview #academicpublishing #socialsciences
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I just learned about ORE, thanks to Khrys'presso.
I'm really curious about open peer review and more generally about their publishing model.
[ I also wish such a platform was built around a distributed model like ActivityPub. ]
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Six #ASAPbio fellows asked four #LLMs to describe the strengths and weaknesses of #preprints. Here are the results.
https://asapbio.org/interim-findings-from-an-investigation-into-llm-responses-about-preprints-a-2025-asapbio-fellows-project/The same fellows asked the same LLMs to ingest six preprints and their #PeerReviewed counterparts, and compare them for quality and rigor. Good question. But they've not yet analyzed the data and will presumably report soon.
PS: I'm interested in a related question. When LLMs answer research questions, do they treat on-topic preprints and on-topic postprints (peer-reviewed articles) as equivalent in weight or credibility? If not, how exactly do they take any differences into account?
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What’s new at PREreview.org? Find it out in our latest Product Weeknote:
🔅 Try out our experimental matchmaking feature and get preprint suggestions to read and review
🔅 Upcoming improvements in review-request display and tracking
🔅 Translation of dataset workflow underway
🔅 New design sprints soon to be announcedhttps://content.prereview.org/prereview-platform-news-27-march-2026/
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Feedback gezocht op:
→ Protocolontwerp & dreigingsmodel
→ Bekende beperking: nog geen Double Ratchet
→ Side-channel analyseWhitepaper + demo: paramant.vercel.app
#PostKwantum #Cryptografie #MLKEM #PeerReview #InfoSec #WebCrypto
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Work by Nils Dycke & Iryna Gurevych (Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE)
See you at #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #LLMs #PeerReview #AIforScience #TrustworthyAI #NLP #Evaluation
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👉 Earlier this month, we co-hosted a lively community call with @ASAPbio to explore the power of collaborative peer review, and learn from our PREreview Club leads’ first-hand experience.
🔖 Curious about how it works and how to get involved in a PREreview Club? Learn more:
https://asapbio.org/asapbio-march-community-call-a-team-effort-why-and-how-to-do-open-collaborative-peer-review/ -
Translate Science is launching a PREreview Club! We hope that will create opportunities for us to get to know more of you from our Mastodon community. Learn more in the blog post and sign up to stay informed about upcoming events:
https://transci.hypotheses.org/220061
https://nextcloud.translatescience.org/apps/forms/s/dqJYTY6HLYnKk6pDk6dpBi8g
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And follow the authors Sukannya Purkayastha, Nils Dycke, and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab (UKP Lab), Technische Universität Darmstadt and National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE, as well as Anne Lauscher from the Data Science Group, University of Hamburg.
See you this week in Rabat 🕌! #EACL2026
#EACL2026 #PeerReview #ScientificPublishing #AIforScience #LLMs #DialogueSystems #Evaluation #ResearchIntegrity #NLP #MachineLearning #UKPLab
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Follow the authors Osama Mohammed Afzal and Iryna Gurevych from the Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing (UKP) Lab, Technische Universität Darmstadt, as well as Preslav Nakov from MBZUAI (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence) and Tom Hope from Ai2.
See you this #EACL2026 in Rabat 🕌!
#UKPLab #NLP #NLProc #AI #PeerReview #AIforScience #ScientificPublishing #NoveltyDetection #Evaluation #OpenScience
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OpenAI’s New Scientific Writing And Collaboration Workspace ‘Prism’ Raises Fears Of Vibe-Coded Academic AI Slop
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop -
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing. #FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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I've been rejected again. Should I get a PhD?
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/09/rejection-letter/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
People tend to look at peer-reviewed journals as a sign of credibility. I've not written about the nonsense of peer review, but these are unadulterated gatekeeping mechanisms antithetical to knowledge dissemination.
#philosophy #protocol #rejection #notice #credentials #journals #credibility #gatekeeping #peerreview #bollox #zenodo #philpapers #writing #letters #blog
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#Academic #Essay #Research #Thesis #Dissertation #ResearchPaper #Citation #References #APA #MLA #ReferenceManagement #Zotero #Mendeley #EndNote #Proofreading #Editing #Revision #Draft #Formatting #Structure #LiteratureReview #Methodology #Results #Discussion #Argument #Evidence #Plagiarism #AcademicIntegrity #PeerReview #WritingProcess #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #GradSchool #PhD #Academia -
Another #PeerReview done.
Manuscript c4,000 words
Review c2,700 words
5hrsPaper in a key area of my methodological work, so it was really interesting. But I really needed to get stuck in.
Two collaboration projects on the design and reporting of #RCTs that might be useful for others:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37982521/
presents 19 factors to aid trial design, and the DELTA2 Guidance specifying a target difference and reporting the #SampleSize calculation for RCTs
https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-018-2884-0 -
#OpenRxiv just added an #AI #PeerReview feature for #preprints on #bioRxiv and #medRxiv. At the moment, they're using the #qedscience tool.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03909-5The bioRxiv announcement makes clear that AI review is optional for authors and that authors might be able to choose from other AI tools in the future.
https://connect.biorxiv.org/news/2025/11/04/qed_review_toolPS: My experiments lead me to think that AI isn't good enough to do peer review yet -- even if (1) it's getting better, (2) it can already help human reviewers, and (3) many human reviewers are worse. Journals that allow it too large a role are abdicating their responsibility and might be deceiving authors and readers. Referees who give it too large a role are abdicating their responsibility and might be deceiving journals, authors, and readers. If you lean in the same direction, let me suggest that these objections don't carry over to preprint servers making AI review an #FWIW option for authors. This kind of AI review doesn't pretend to be more than it is. When it happens, it's a voluntary decision by authors. Of course authors could have gotten AI feedback on their own, with the AI tools of their choice, and without the preprint-server mediation. But giving them another option for the same kind of feedback is harmless and convenient. Moreover, it creates a training ground to monitor the quality and improvement of the AI tools.
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We continue our work on papers from our multi-arm trials in the "Education for #Wellbeing" programme.
#PeerReview comments were a great opportunity to catch up with colleagues over the revisions!
If you can't wait:
#PrePrints
https://osf.io/kxug7/files#DfE reports
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⚙️ Join us for a PKP Software Development Update Webinar on Monday December 15th at 8 AM PST!
* Roadmap update, open #PeerReview, changes to #indexing, #DOIs and deposits, structured #citations, flexible workflow, the future of theming and more!
Can't make it? Register anyway for the recording!
https://pkp.sfu.ca/2025/11/24/development-news-update-webinar-december/
#OpenJournalSystems #OpenMonographPress #OpenPreprintSystems #FOSS #OpenInfrastructure
@ORCID_Org @crossref @ResearchOrgs @DOAJ @tibhannover @TIBopenpub @investinopen
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@manjusrii The onus is on those of us who don’t need a promotion in #academia to #publish only in open-access, free-to-publish journals, and to support those journals as editors and reviewers. Gradually we’ll see the system change for the better if we adopt this strategy. #science #publication #peerreview
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Update. _Nature Structural & Molecular Biology_ is "now offering all [its] reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01727-x -
Update. _Nature Structural & Molecular Biology_ is "now offering all [its] reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01727-x -
Update. _Nature Structural & Molecular Biology_ is "now offering all [its] reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01727-x -
Update. _Nature Structural & Molecular Biology_ is "now offering all [its] reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01727-x -
Update. _Nature Structural & Molecular Biology_ is "now offering all [its] reviewers the opportunity to invite an early career researcher to formally co-review manuscripts with them."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41594-025-01727-x -
Another #PeerReview done.
Manuscript c3,000 words
Review c1,400 words
1hr 45minThis was probably the optimal scenario:
Well-structured paper on one standard epidemiological research question and mainly clarifications with view to #STROBE needed
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040297I had two suggestions for the Discussion regarding potential causal drivers that the team could not control for but which might be important to consider going forward.
And as usual no information on #MissingData was provided.
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Looking to get involved in peer review?
Check out the Fast & Fair initiative run by Biology Open.
https://journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fast-fair
#PeerReview #PaidWork #Journals #Academia #Research #Biology #BiologyOpen
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🌍 How can open peer review reshape research beyond the Global North? 🔍
Samir Hachani (Univ. of Algiers II) explores faculty perspectives on open peer review at #Munin2025.
💡 Read the abstract: doi.org/10.7557/5.8329 -
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"The rise of #generativeAI has supercharged this #fraud #industry.. The #peerreview system, academia’s safeguard against fraud, faces its own problems.. The #scientific #community must reckon with how its own #structures; the #publication metrics, #funding mechanisms & #career incentives, have created #vulnerabilities that unethical systems can exploit. Until we address these #systemic issues, the fraud industry will thrive.. The question is whether we can afford not to." #science #integrity -
'Give a positive review': Hidden AI prompt found in #academicpaper by #NUS
"The prompt, embedded at te end of te paper in white print is invisible to te naked eye, but can be picked up by #AI systems like #ChatGPT & #DeepSeek.. Te prompt's an attempt to influence AI-generated peer reviews.. authors of te paper r an asst professor, 3 PhD candidates & a research asst fr NUS. A 6th author is a PhD candidate fr #Yale.. te paper has been w'drawn fr #peerreview & corrected" 1/2
https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/give-positive-review-hidden-ai-prompt-found-academic-paper-nus-researchers -
Looking to get involved in peer review?
Check out the Fast & Fair initiative run by @BiologyOpen.
https://journals.biologists.com/bio/pages/fast-fair
#PeerReview #PaidWork #Journals #Academia #Research #Biology #BiologyOpen
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#Researchers from 14 universities in eight countries were found to have inserted #hiddenprompts in their #researchpapers, instructing #AItools to provide #positivereviews: While some argue the prompts are a #countermeasure against AI-assisted #lazyreviewers, others emphasise the need for #guidelines on #AIuse in #peerreview. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers?eicker.news #tech #media #news
