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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maybe almost every peer is also doing something so less time to check for errors on other people papers?
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Far be it from me to defend the broken publishing system, but I think part of the problem is that everybody and their grandmother is publishing on Covid, yet the amount of people that can professionally review that type of research is the same as before the pandemic.
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The deluge of papers probably provides a cover for a lot of offenders.
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Another angle. The PubPeer database has a pretty large sample of papers that should definitely be retracted, for obvious figure falsifications. Only a few are. Nobody has tried to quantify it (it's somewhat subjective), but I'd say 10% would be optimistic. Cc
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What are the consequences of falsification? Are the authors fired by their employers? Frankly, I don't think this should be tolerated.
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A very large portion of the COVID-19 papers are editorials / hypothetical papers, not research papers. So they are less likely to be retracted.
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But kind of useless as well?
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