#scientificfraud — Public Fediverse posts

"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."

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https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122

Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #HackadayColumns #scientificfraud #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #Zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #JamesWebb #citation #PaloAlto #Slider #K2-18b #Kepler #tooth #DMDS #gear #jwst #Musk #DMS

Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms

The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.

Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&v=Q9tgyVPytBk

#ResearchIntegrity #FrancescaGino #ScientificFraud #HarvardUniversity #Plagiarism #DataColada

“There is a large-scale industry of so-called “paper mills” that sell fictive research, sometimes written by artificial intelligence, to researchers who then publish it in peer-reviewed journals — which are sometimes edited by people who had been placed by those sham groups” #ScientificFraud #ResearchFraud https://mstdn.science/@YvanDutil/112486855163219831