The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/
The growing crisis of “AI slop” that endangers scientific publishing.
#FakeScience #InformationOverload #AIEthics #ScientificIntegrity #ResearchQuality #PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #OpenScience #TrustInScience
www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
Science Is Drowning in AI Slop
Warum erfinden zweifelhafte Journals Artikel und listen real existierende Forschende in der Autorenzeile? Was haben sie davon? … Ein konkretes Beispiel samt weiterer Gedanken dazu in unserer "Freitags-Kolumne": https://www.laborjournal.de/editorials/3414.php. #scientificintegrity #publicationethics
Más comentarios sobre la guía sobre infertilidad de la OMS: práctica en base a la evidencia e integridad científica.
https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/41/1/1/8345642
https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article/41/1/3/8345641
#bianorbiotech #ScientificIntegrity #GlobalHealth #WHO #InfertilityGuidelines #EvidenceBasedPractice
Glyphosate safety article retracted 8 years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Nature paper retracted after one investigation finds data errors, another finds no misconduct
Did you know that Retraction Watch & the Retraction Watch Database are projects of The Center of #ScientificIntegrity?
Others include the Medical Evidence Project, the Hijacked Journal Checker, the Sleuths in Residence Program. Help support this work.
Joining a new instance, posting a new #introduction.
After three years in the Fediverse, including two wonderful years at https://fediscience.org/@fresseng, I’m joining the first French instance that is both dedicated to and hosted by the academic community.
Academic and physicist, I also dabble in politics.
I will be posting about #openscience #fairdata #freesoftware #foss #CoARA #researchassesment #scientificintegrity #digitalinfrastructure ... and #Fediverse
If someone can tell me how to translate an archive.ph page I'd appreciate it. When I try this page in Google Translate I end up in Captcha Hell. So for now I can only share the original Dutch site...
Investigators at #RadboudUMC in Nijmegen (one of them my cousin) discover large scale #fraud in medical publications #ScientificIntegrity #ScientificCommunity
I recently joined Science Integrity Alliance as Editorial Lead. REACH is the alliance's quarterly magazine for research integrity and open science and just published its second issue.
https://www.sci-integrity.com/reach-october-december-2025
I can't take credit for this fantastic edition (other than a quick proofread) - that's down to Luciana Machado and the editorial committee, including Daniel Ucko and Maryam Sayab - but I'll be contributing to both this and our forums at https://www.sci-integrity.com/groups. These include our open Integrity Café and our HIKE Forum (Hub for Integrity and Knowledge Exchange) for contributors and subscribers to discuss resources and approaches to integrity with invited experts.
If there are any projects, products, or news related to scientific integrity that you'd like us to cover, please get in touch.
#ResearchIntegrity #PublicationEthics #ResponsibleResearch #OpenScience #OpenScholarship #ScientificIntegrity #ScienceIntegrity #ScienceEditing #SciComm #ScienceIntegrityAlliance
As envisioned, a substantial peripheral benefit of this plan would be recapture of funds now being diverted to support the unquenchable needs of psychologically damaged capitalists.
"The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year, which—if unchecked—will damage the scientific and economic progress of our societies. The result is editor and reviewer fatigue, irreproducible experiments, misguided experiments, disinformation and escalating costs that devour funding from taxpayers intended for research. It is high time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan to stop this unhealthy development. A conference was therefore organized by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to draft an action plan with specific recommendations, as follows. (i) Academia should resume control of publishing using non-profit publishing models (e.g. diamond open-access). (ii) Adjust incentive systems to merit quality, not quantity, in a reputation economy where the gaming of publication numbers and citation metrics distorts the perception of academic excellence. (iii) Implement mechanisms to prevent and detect fake publications and fraud which are independent of publishers. (iv) Draft and implement legislations, regulations and policies to increase publishing quality and integrity. This is a call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort."
#ScientificIntegrity
#AcademicFraud
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.251805?af=R
Hai phó giáo sư vừa xin rút khỏi Tổ công tác về Liêm chính khoa học của Trường Đại học Y khoa Phạm Ngọc Thạch với những lý do khác nhau. Vụ việc này cho thấy những thách thức trong việc duy trì liêm chính học thuật tại các cơ sở giáo dục đại học.
#liêmchínhkhoahọc #giáodụcđại học #đạihọcYkhoa #PhạmNgọcThạch #phógiáo sư #tổcông tác #họcth uật #giáo dục #vietnamnews #university #scientificintegrity #academia #education #vietnam
https://vietnamnet.vn/2-pgs-xin-rut-khoi-to-cong-tac-ve-liem-chinh-k
🎧 Serge Horbach, assistant prof at @isis-radboud.bsky.social, is part of this podcast episode on the past and future of journal peer review. 👇 #STS #scientificintegrity #peerreview
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ao7ykaoap23gbmrggv4ytobn/post/3m2i3vyckuf2u
Does anyone else question the 2025 autism statistics? I wish Secretary Kennedy's new 'Gold Standard Science™' was actually about finding truth, but it sadly looks like he's just pushing his preconceived notions.
#RFKJr #Autism #ScientificIntegrity #ScientificIntegrity #Misinformation
🧪⚡ Dozens of scientists are pushing back against a controversial Department of Energy report, calling it “fundamentally flawed.” The debate highlights tensions over nuclear energy and scientific integrity.
🔗 https://abcnews.go.com/US/dozens-scientists-push-back-fundamentally-flawed-department-energy/story?id=125211760
#SciencePolicy #NuclearEnergy #DOE #ScientificIntegrity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cdc-turmoil-monarez-senior-officials-1.7620484
The courageous resistance shown by these CDC officials is what we should expect from scientists generally. My greatest respect to them.
#CDC #ScientificIntegrity #Disinformation #Fascism #USPol #RFKJr #Trump
The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
"Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
"Discussions with different stakeholders suggest that many currently perceive systematic fraudulent science as something that occurs only in the periphery of the “real” scientific enterprise, that is, outside OECD countries. Accumulating evidence shows that systematic production of low quality and fraudulent science can occur anywhere (84–89). Moreover, as we show in this study, large North American and European publishers and the editors they appoint provide credibility to these practices. The impact of these practices is likely to be felt much more immediately and strongly in countries with inchoate scientific enterprises but is in no way restricted to them."
#EPA Pulls Down Updated #ScientificIntegrity Policy
The policy’s removal follows Trump’s May 2025 executive order, “Restoring Gold Standard Science,” which directed all federal agencies to roll back scientific integrity policies to the versions in place before January 20, 2021. It replaced the Biden-era reforms with political oversight, requiring each agency to reevaluate and potentially rescind updated safeguards and operate under older scientific integrity policies.
https://scilight.substack.com/p/epa-pulls-down-updated-scientific
"The ability to tell the truth, especially when it does not suit any particularly partisan aims, is an essential prerequisite for a free society. Scientists can leverage their substantial social standing and trustworthiness to preserve this vital ingredient. Under authoritarian conditions in the Soviet Union, many dissident leaders were prominent scientists, circulating underground writings that criticized the pseudoscience that the communist state approved and promoted. These materials helped to break through the wall of invincibility that the government tried to create—even when the dissidents themselves paid a price. Indeed, the US government used to prioritize breaking down autocrats’ control of information throughout countries behind the Iron Curtain, by supporting dissident and alternative news sources that could break barriers to truth.
Every would-be dissident scientist has a different tolerance for risk, and efforts to reestablish public sources of trusted scientific information can’t fully recreate the US science apparatus now being dismantled. But alternative institutions offer a promising pathway for preserving an essential role of science in public life, while maintaining democratic principles that enable a free society. Those in the science community who are willing and able to be more visible can step up. Acting together will be more impactful than going it alone."
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/science.aea9328?af=R
Facts don’t disappear—they’re erased. The DOE's new report spins CO₂ as heroic, purges leading scientists, and sidelines real climate data.
Dangerous move.
https://brewminate.com/when-facts-collide-with-power-inside-the-does-fictional-climate-report/
