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32-year-old blogger's research forces Harvard Medical School affiliate to retract 6 papers, correct another 31 (fortune.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Really embarrassing also for the journals that published the papers – and which are as guilty. They take ridiculously massive amounts of money to publish articles (publication cost for one article easily surpasses the cost of a high-end business laptop), and they don't even check them properly?

[–] BakedGoods 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why would they check them properly? These are for profit organizations. Their only job is to generate profit, not check articles for errors. The Lancet Journal is owned by a 20 billion dollar corporation.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Fully agree with you all! Very sad. And shows how scientists are either idiots or money-seekers.

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