Trust The “Science”…That Just Retracted 11,000 “Peer Reviewed” Papers

It’s yet another reminder of why blindly ‘trusting the science’ may not always be the best go-to move in the future.

217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly “peer reviewed” more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing. The papers were referred to as “naked gobbledygook sandwiches”,  Australian blogger Jo Nova wrote on her blog last week

“It’s not just a scam, it’s an industry,” she said. “Who knew, academic journals were a $30 billion dollar industry?”

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EddieHnatko
EddieHnatko
5 months ago

Meaning ya doesn’t zackly git wacha pays fer

garro
garro
5 months ago

There is a site that lists ALL the research papers which currently still cite/never retracted debunked research.

Big Ruckus D
Big Ruckus D
5 months ago

In the lyrical stylings of Don Henley (yes, an avowed leftist moron, but sometimes drops a pertinent nugget anyway): “I can get you any result you want. What’s it worth to you?”. That is modern science. “Scientists” pretend to do research, and the government pretends to pay them (being the money has had its value inflated away).

This trend of course being brought to the fore by the COVID scam, and further reinforced by all the revelations now taking place about junk science being at the root of what was done. At least perennial skeptics like myself now have confirmation that we were right about what was going on. Small comfort in that since the damage is already done.