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by makomk
2456 days ago
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Alas, these kinds of problems are not restricted to the social sciences. Case in point, this retraction from a couple of days ago: https://retractionwatch.com/2019/09/25/nature-paper-on-ocean... Very similar to this one really; the paper claimed to overturn our existing knowledge in a way that fitted a narrative people were inclined to believe (in that case: we're all doomed) and was immediately seized on by all the news sites because of it, except the statistics were mucked up and it couldn't show what it claimed to. The fact that it was so surprising should've been even more of a massive warning sign in that case though. |
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Wonder if it'd be possible to automatically scan new papers added to (say) arxiv.org, for retracted papers in their references?
eg to warn the authors, and maybe eventually automatically as part of the upload process for arxiv.org (and similar)