ME/CFS Skeptic - How many scientific papers are fake?

[Utsikt]

I asked another scientist how they tell if a paper is worth reading or not. They said they go straight to the data and plots and you can tell very quickly. They also said they will always read a paper and trust the data from labs/teams they know and trust. I think they mentioned Dr Hanson as an example.

Interesting that you mention data here, and not anything else. I’ve seen so many «guides» on how to read papers that are about trying to understand what the authors intended to convey.

As a non-researcher, I’ve come to treat everything in a paper as marketing at best, propaganda at worst, unless proven otherwise.

 

[wigglethemouse]

This is a funny one: Book on AI looks to be written by LLM full of made-up stuff https://retractionwatch.com/2025/06...achine-learning-is-full-of-made-up-citations/

I definitely recommend reading some Retraction Watch articles and papers from members of the team. When I read some of the writing from Dr. Elizabeth Bik I was convinced about the poor quality of papers.