Science oops: “Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common”
Could be that 1 in 3 papers are hired works from “paper mills” that fabricate data and plagiarize from elsewhere: Journals are awash in a rising tide of scientific manuscripts…
Education oops: “Review finds little evidence to support some claims of gender bias” in academic STEM positions
There are possibly other characteristics that show bias but they were not identified in this study, jointly co-authored by those who previously claimed bias and those who disagreed with that…
Science oops: Much bad science (and worse media coverage of it)
The problem isn't bad science but what happens next: disastrous media coverage of bad science studies, and a lack of skeptical inquiry by reporters.
Published in Nature: “Political endorsements can affect scientific credibility”
In 2020, Nature endorsed Joe Biden in the US presidential election. A survey finds that viewing the endorsement did not change people’s views of the candidates, but caused some to…
Tech: Meta’s AI-backed language system taken off line after 3 days
Galactica is an AI system designed to analyze and summarize science papers. Meta says it’s better than a search engine. Not only can it find sources, but it can write…
Science: Many researchers cannot reproduce their own or other’s experimental results
This seems like a bit of a problem: More than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist’s experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce…