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Apropos of nothing, Wall Street Journal article on scientists who debunk bad science. Title: "The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists" Subtitle: "Stanford's president and a high-profile physicist are among those taken down by a growing wave of volunteers who expose faulty or fraudulent research papers"

Nice photo of MTL, who declined to comment.

https://www.wsj.com/science/data-colada-...ch-14664f3

5,500 faulty papers were retracted in 2022 compared with 119 in 2002. Tally kept by Retraction Watch:

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/27/n...w-of-2022/

So much for the old adage, "If you can't dazzle them with detail, baffle them with BS".

[cardcrimson]

Apropos of nothing, Wall Street Journal article on scientists who debunk bad science. Title: "The Band of Debunkers Busting Bad Scientists" Subtitle: "Stanford's president and a high-profile physicist are among those taken down by a growing wave of volunteers who expose faulty or fraudulent research papers"

Nice photo of MTL, who declined to comment.

https://www.wsj.com/science/data-colada-...ch-14664f3

5,500 faulty papers were retracted in 2022 compared with 119 in 2002. Tally kept by Retraction Watch:

https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/27/n...w-of-2022/

So much for the old adage, "If you can't dazzle them with detail, baffle them with BS".