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by dsign
837 days ago
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Exactly. It's bad motivations all the way: - Nature published a paper twice after the reviewers voted "no". Of course, it is not a voting process, the editor makes their decision. But evidently the editor didn't use the referee's input for that decision. That input, must I say, is free work that academics do for the journal. Click-baitiness simply weighted more to the editor and her supervisors. People should just stop paying attention to what Nature publishes. - The students... I think this is the worst part of the story. Sometimes, students are on a student visa that depends on them holding for dear life to their university position. Been there, done that. I remember when I did my PhD: four to five international students--very well prepared I must say--to one from the host country. The ones from the host country were the ones with the best soft skills but they rarely put the long hours. I'll never forget that Iranian student who was a political refugee passing as a PhD student, because she couldn't bear the indignity of an asylum process. She couldn't return to her home country either. - The replication...For the first retraction, I could find nowhere in the article that replication attempts were made. If those replication attempts were impossible to produce with the data published in the article itself, then its not a scientific paper, but a promotional brochure. In fact, some promotional materials are more extensive than Nature's articles; they really want to make the thing very short and academics are forced to jump through hoops to condense their publications, until they are practically impossible to understand, not to mention replicate. Again, the only solution to that problem is to ignore Nature. |
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The LK-99 paper, lots of attempts at replicating the results. Crazy quick. Like front-running the published results.
These results, like people never even had the thought to try, and it devolved into arguing sampling issues rather than just trying the material.
There is some certain sub-segment of humanity that often feels that way. Like 8B humans will all bend over backward to let them get away with almost anything. Totally abandon all normal procedures, safety checks, laws, replication, validation, ...