Dr. Frankenstein: “It’s alive! It’s alive!” Sez you, champ.
Dig this: “Flood of fake science forces multiple journal closures” (https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/05/15/1449205/flood-of-fake-science-forces-multiple-journal-closures).
Toldja!
Some 11,000 scientific papers have been “compromised,” a study by Schutt reports. This has led to “thousand of retractions (!) and millions of dollars in lost revenues.” In 2022 alone we saw “the discovery of nearly 500 fraudulent papers.” Yeesh!
Like I say, science plus politics equals politics.
So whose “science” do we believe, these days? Nobody’s? Are they all on the take for dirty money? I daresay I don’t know! But the Schutt report is alarming, to say the least. The Experts keep telling us to “follow the science.” Follow it where? Are we to base public policy on a lot of flim-flam?
Looks like it, doesn’t it?