SHADY SCIENTIFIC SHENANIGANS! THIS WEEK IN THE WORLD OF RETRACTION WATCH!
WHOA, hang onto your lab coats, because this week has been even more WILD than a mad scientist’s experiment gone haywire! Get this – we’ve got over 375 (yes, you read that right, THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FIVE!) retracted or withdrawn COVID-19 papers. And if that’s not enough, there are more than 44,000 retractions in The Retraction Watch Database. Can you believe it?!
And the craziness doesn’t stop there – a “star neuroscientist” may have manipulated data! AI has been caught peddling fake science! A Spanish national research council is investigating five scientists for fudging university rankings. Oh, and hold onto your petri dishes – a new tool can even detect AI-generated chemistry papers!
If you thought that was too much to handle, just wait – a movement is a-brewing, with folks uniting for the first time to call for a research misconduct body. There’s talk of charging for unauthorized research collaborations and a spike in Chinese researchers stealing the show with the most cited papers. It’s a jungle out there!
But wait, there’s more! We’ve got the world in suspense over a Czech biologist scoring a new gig despite a shady shadow looming over him. And after a deep dive into retractions from Kazakhstan, the decline in Americans’ trust in scientists is no light-hearted matter. The drama never ends in the world of research!
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