Every so often...

[MarionP]

Just a reminder that even science (and here, science publishing (upon which medicine and other forms of health and care practices, schools and traditions also rely) is an imperfect discipline, like everything else...but also can be interesting, and even fun, just as a human endeavor to learn about.

retractionwatch.com/2022/08...

[MBAnderson]

Very interesting. Good post.

254 COVID-19 papers retracted.

Being wrong is one thing, lack of integrity, i.e., fraud/cheating, which is what most of these point to, is quite another.

[MarionP in reply to MBAnderson]

Ever hear of the "Journal of Irreproducible Results"? Sort of an insider scientist humor magazine. (It's often so subtle and obtuse that no one else but a scientist would get it.) Don't know if it is still around.

[Bolt_Upright in reply to MarionP]

web.archive.org/web/2019092...

[MarionP in reply to Bolt_Upright]

Wonderful, thank you THANK YOU!!

[amykp in reply to MarionP]

Oh, when I was a grad student I used to LOVE that magazine! Sadly, I think it's not around anymore--maybe the world has lost too much of its sense of humor. But I'm going to go search...maybe I'm wrong! I'd love to be wrong.

[gwendolinej]

Wow, that link made interesting reading. Thanks Marion

Gwendoline

[MarionP in reply to gwendolinej]

Glad you thought so. It does help to give one perspective, and so people can judge things for themselves. It does help to be able to speak to people across the table as equally valuable humans.

[LAJ12345]

Tee hee I am amused by the one in the centre. Makes you wonder what they failed to be vigilant about🧐

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