Australian blogger Jo Nova recently revealed the dark side of science, exposing 11,000 "peer-reviewed" papers in the 217-year-old Wiley science publication as fakes.
It serves as another example of why it might not always be the wisest course of action to 'trust the science' blindly in the future.
It has been discovered that the 217-year-old Wiley science publication "peer-reviewed" more than 11,000 papers that turned out to be fake without ever realizing it. Australian blogger Jo Nova described the papers as "naked gobbledygook sandwiches" on her blog last week.
"It’s not just a scam, it’s an industry," she stated. "Who knew, academic journals were a 30 billion dollar industry?"
According to Nova's piece, expert cheating services are using artificial intelligence (AI) to rearrange words in academic papers to create what appear to be "original" works. As an example, phrases such as "breast cancer" became "bosom peril," while the "naïve Bayes" classifier became "gullibl...
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