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A Record Number of Scientific Papers Were Retracted in 2023 For Being Fraudulent or a Having Conflicts of Interest (medium.com)
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[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm. So is it actually the number of fraudullent papers that's up, or is it the number of frauds that get caught?

[โ€“] GiveMemes@jlai.lu 3 points 1 month ago

Probably both considering that many people need these studies to return results to continue getting funded. At the same time, more academics than ever are excited about uncovering fraudulent work (imo).