Some thoughts on scientific retractions. I think we can fairly say that there are far fewer than we'd expect if science was working well
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There have been in the range of 100,000 scientific papers published on COVID-19 this year. PubMed shows 78,000, and if we include journals not indexed by that resource I'd imagine we'd break 100k easilypic.twitter.com/lOhiLPnYOO
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Now, let's think about this scientifically. What's the serious error/fraud rate for published research? The rate at which a retraction-worthy paper is published in a peer-reviewed journal
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Replying to @K_Sheldrick
Nahhh, there's a lot of commentary and editorial published in peer-reviewed journals that's terrible but not retraction-worthy 
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