An open letter regarding Scientific Reports

Open letter from a group of sleuths regarding problems with editors/papers at the journal Scientific Reports.
https://twitter.com/user/status/1846469354029814027


Dear Mr Graf,

We are a group of sleuths and forensic meta-scientists who are concerned that Springer Nature is failing in its duty to protect the scientific literature from fraudulent and low quality work....

Full letter here: https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/10/an-open-letter-regarding-scientific.html

 

Academic publishing is fundamentally broken.

I hadn't heard the term "tortured phrases" before; this is exactly what I found in a CFS paper a couple of months ago, evidently the use of some kind of automated paraphrasing tool.

 

Could be. I found that she was co-author of this paper that compared CFS activists to climate change deniers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/529459a.pdf

 

She made a comment to the SMC about Crawley's LP study:

https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-controversial-treatment-for-cfsme/

 

Maybe having done that for long enough the magnitude of what you’d have to realise you’d done makes for such huge cognitive dissonance that person absolutely must be kept labelled because you aren’t prepared to go through the (nowhere near as much effort or pain as that relative will experience from each day or LC their attitudes being like that) come to Jesus , say sorry, acknowledge and re-set history and who you all are based in the truth.

sad isn’t it we have so much papers based on something like this drive