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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 54 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 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?

[–] onion@feddit.de 19 points 9 months ago

Journals are the cancer of the science world

[–] Akagigahara@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

Why would they? They get the money. I feel like that system is just prime corruption/malpractice and leads to crap like this.

It's for profit all the way through

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

You have a lot of shit in the journals. I read about autism for example. I can't count how many article with restrain and basic human right abuse are published. And, it continues in 2024.

It's seriously depressing to see this BS and other pseudo-scientific text published.

[–] JoBo@feddit.uk 14 points 9 months ago

Oh, they don't pay the peer reviewers. That would cut their profit margins waaaay too much.