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RE: So you wanted to be a scientist? Let me tell you what's happening in academia today!

in #science7 years ago

wow, did not know about that about the cancer studies, imagine how much damage this can do to medicine and trust of patients in their cure. Do you have a link?

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Sure @lys , Fake Science: A New Record, Over 100 Peer Reviewed Studies Was Retracted From Cancer Journal
There were previous published fake peer review that I wrote about years earlier, and I had hoped the problems were addressed but this showed that the peer-review process is systemically flawed...
https://ronmamita.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/fake-science-a-new-record-over-100-peer-reviewed-studies-was-retracted-from-cancer-journal/

Looks interesting! Thanks for the link. I hope to write another article about the issues around scientific publishing and the journal industry. This might give some more ammunition!

Ha-ha, No shortage there it's an industrial ammunition manufacturing plant! LOL 😃

Look into astronomy and see the "Red-shift" star light controversy; once again peer review process was problematic...
Happy hunting - ahem, researching!