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AuscandocExclusive: the papers that most heavily cite retracted studies <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02719-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02719-5</a> “We are just observing that in some bibliographies, the references have been <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/retracted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retracted</a> or withdrawn, meaning that the paper may be unreliable,” Cabanac says. He calls his tool a <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/FeetofClay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FeetofClay</a> Detector, referring to an analogy, originally from the Bible, about statues or edifices that collapse because of their weak clay foundations.”

Chuck DarwinEgregious examples of <a href="https://c.im/tags/artificial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#artificial</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/intelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intelligence</a> that have recently made their way into <a href="https://c.im/tags/scientific" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scientific</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/journals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journals</a>, shine a light on the wave of 💥AI-generated text and images washing over the academic publishing industry.💥Several experts who track down problems in studies told AFP that the rise of AI has turbocharged the existing problems in the multi-billion-dollar sector.All the experts emphasized that AI programs such as ChatGPT can be a helpful tool for writing or translating papers—if thoroughly checked and disclosed.But that was not the case for recent cases that somehow snuck past peer review, such as: 🔹An infographic of a rat with a preposterously large penis. 🔹Another showing human legs with way too many bones. 🔹An introduction that starts: "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic".It is not always so easy to spot the use of AI. -- But one clue is that ChatGPT tends to favor certain words.Andrew Gray, a librarian at University College London, trawled through millions of papers searching for the overuse of words such as <a href="https://c.im/tags/meticulous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meticulous</a>, <a href="https://c.im/tags/intricate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#intricate</a> or <a href="https://c.im/tags/commendable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#commendable</a>.He determined that at least 💥60,000 papers involved the use of AI in 2023 —over one percent of the annual total."For 2024 we are going to see very significantly increased numbers," Gray told AFP.Meanwhile, more than ⭐️13,000 papers were <a href="https://c.im/tags/retracted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retracted</a> last year, by far the most in history, according to the US-based group Retraction Watch.AI has allowed the bad actors in scientific publishing and academia to "industrialize the overflow" of "<a href="https://c.im/tags/junk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#junk</a>" papers, Retraction Watch co-founder Ivan Oransky told AFP.Such bad actors include what are known as <a href="https://c.im/tags/paper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#paper</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/mills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mills</a>.These "scammers" ♦️sell authorship to researchers, pumping out vast amounts of very poor quality, plagiarized or fake papers, said Elisabeth Bik, a Dutch researcher who detects scientific image manipulation.Two percent of all studies are thought to be published by paper mills, but the rate is "exploding" as AI opens the floodgates, Bik told AFP.This problem was highlighted when academic publishing giant Wiley purchased troubled publisher Hindawi in 2021.Since then, the US firm has retracted more than 11,300 papers related to special issues of Hindawi, a Wiley spokesperson told AFP.Wiley has now introduced a "paper mill detection service" to detect AI misuse—which itself is powered by AI.<a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-08-junk-ai-scientific-publishing.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-08-junk-ai-scientific-publishing.html</a>

Auscandoc<a href="https://www.cureus.com/articles/196275-increased-age-adjusted-cancer-mortality-after-the-third-mrna-lipid-nanoparticle-vaccine-dose-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-japan/retraction#!/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cureus.com/articles/196275-increased-age-adjusted-cancer-mortality-after-the-third-mrna-lipid-nanoparticle-vaccine-dose-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-japan/retraction#!/</a> “<a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/RETRACTED" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RETRACTED</a> "Increased Age-Adjusted Cancer Mortality After the Third <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/mRNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mRNA</a>-Lipid Nanoparticle Vaccine Dose During the <a href="https://med-mastodon.com/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COVID19</a> Pandemic in Japan" Fukushima et al.

beSpacific<a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChineseCensorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChineseCensorship</a> Is Quietly Rewriting the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Covid19</a> Story. Under government pressure, <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/ChineseScientists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChineseScientists</a> have <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/retracted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retracted</a> studies and <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/withheld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#withheld</a> or <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DeletedData" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DeletedData</a>. The <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> has stymied efforts to understand the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/virus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#virus</a>. <a href="https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/chinese-censorship-is-quietly-rewriting-the-covid-19-story/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/chinese-censorship-is-quietly-rewriting-the-covid-19-story/</a>

Renee DiRestaConsensus of the Most Likes: a paper is about to be <a href="https://saturation.social/tags/retracted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retracted</a> but will that shift public opinion?“Some readers noted seemingly disqualifying flaws in the methods…which included a survey funded by an anti-vaccine advocate...But their concerns were largely drowned out by Twitter and Substack accounts with collective followings in the millions who cheered the finding”<a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/this-questionable-study-caught-fire-in-anti-vaccine-circles-how-did-it-get-through-peer-review" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chronicle.com/article/this-questionable-study-caught-fire-in-anti-vaccine-circles-how-did-it-get-through-peer-review</a>

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