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marble falls

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1. Because of the pressure to "publish, publish, publish" to keep up reputations and draw in more research bucks ...

Reply to sl8 (Original post)

Sat Jun 1, 2024, 08:25 AM

Jun 2024

... to develop more products to market to consumers. A lack of peer review before publishing and the huge number of papers being published contributes 'bigly', too.

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Biomedical paper retractions have quadrupled in 20 years -- why? [View all] sl8 Jun 2024 OP

Because of the pressure to "publish, publish, publish" to keep up reputations and draw in more research bucks ... marble falls Jun 2024 #1

research grants tied directly lapfog_1 Jun 2024 #2

I'm guessing that investigators from organizations such as Retraction Watch have an impact erronis Jun 2024 #3