Nobel Prize-winner tallies two more retractions, bringing total to 13

8 pointsposted 10 months ago
by janandonly

4 Comments

janandonly

10 months ago

In the next few years once sufficient reliability is reached, someone is going to train an LLM to search through academic papers for cases of obvious fraud.

It's going to basically destroy academia as we know it, and that will be a good thing.

Ekaros

10 months ago

Maybe there should be some bounty program set by some NGO. Kinda like we have bug bounties there would be bounties paid out when retractions happen.

This would need pretty hard core verification of maldoing, but supporting this sort of hunting at least in more highly ranked journals would only do good.

foldr

10 months ago

Most fraud is just misreporting the results of experiments. You can sometimes detect that by statistical analysis, but not with an LLM. In most cases it's the exact same paper the researchers would have written if they'd actually obtained the results that they claimed.

basementcat

10 months ago

Finding errors in published papers is going to "destroy" academia as much as finding errors in production software will "destroy" the profession of computer programming.