[ExI] trust the fake science?

[Stuart LaForge]

On 2024-06-06 07:13, spike jones via extropy-chat wrote:
> https://www.wsj.com/science/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc?st=7coxnydp5togwhy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
> 
> FLOOD OF FAKE SCIENCE FORCES MULTIPLE JOURNAL CLOSURES
> 
> WILEY TO SHUTTER 19 MORE JOURNALS, SOME TAINTED BY FRAUD
> 
> By Nidhi Subbaraman [1]
> 
> Follow
> 
> May 14, 2024 8:00 am ET
> 
> Fake studies have flooded the publishers of top scientific journals,
> leading to thousands of retractions and millions of dollars in lost
> revenue. The biggest hit has come to Wiley [2], a 217-year-old
> publisher based in Hoboken, N.J., which Tuesday will announce that it
> is closing 19 journals, some of which were infected by large-scale
> research fraud.
> 
> In the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than 11,300 papers
> that appeared compromised, according to a spokesperson, and closed
> four journals. It isn't alone: At least two other publishers have
> retracted hundreds of suspect papers each. Several others have pulled
> smaller clusters of bad papers…  Wall Street Journal
> 
> Sheesh.  We now can't tell which of the papers is real and which are
> fake.

If anybody here has read or watched the TV adaptation of "Three Body 
Problem", this almost seems like a (relatively) low-tech version of the 
Trisolaran plot to sabotage humanity's advancement in science so that we 
would be easy prey when their invasion fleet arrives.

Stuart LaForge