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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(Note, this obviously cannot be 0% because some papers ARE retracted)
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Health Nerd Retweeted Gregory Herczeg
To clarify, the rate that you think papers are published with errors that SHOULD lead to retraction, even if they are never retractedhttps://twitter.com/GregHerczeg/status/1338602871697403905?s=20 …
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So the results are rolling in, and it doesn't look great for published research! A lot of people who think that 1 in 200 papers is worthy of retraction


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But let's be more conservative and say 1 in 1,000 papers is bad enough to be retracted With ~100,000 papers published on COVID-19 this year, we'd expect about 100 retractions
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How many COVID-19 papers do you think have been retracted in 2020 (roughly)?
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Replying to @GidMK
For the answer to this question, I highly recommend the chat
@DrLabos & I had with@IvanOransky on this topic: https://bodyofevidence.ca/interview-ivan-oransky-on-scientific-papers … ;)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Love it! Will listen 
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