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New blog post: The Camel's Camel. Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder. #TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...

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📣 New study alert: Nearly half of research projects in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences remain unpublished—even years after data collection.

Poppa, C., Nießen, D., Daikeler, J., Silber, H., Weiß, B., & Richter, D. (2025). The tip of the iceberg? Insights into the prevalence of publication bias in two probability-based academic panels. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/bj3g9_v1

I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.

https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025

I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.

If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.

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"We’ve saved the funniest tool for last: the tortured phrases detector. Sometimes researchers copy paste text from other academic papers. To avoid accusations of plagiarism they use tools that automatically rewrite the text. But this doesn’t always go well. Sometimes it results in phrases that sound weird and no longer make sense in their context. ‘Artificial intelligence’ becomes ‘counterfeit consciousness’ while ‘deep neural network’ is changed into ‘profound neural organization.’ Nonsensical terms like these suggest a paper has been produced by a paper mill. Guillaume Cabanac and colleagues have pioneered the detection of tortured phrases in computer science, but others have used it in medicine and found some hilarious examples. ‘Anal canal’ became ‘butt-centric waterway’ while ‘breast cancer’ is often rephrased as ‘bosom peril’."

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https://mecfsskeptic.com/how-many-scientific-papers-are-fake/