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Posted by adharmad 1 day ago

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck(www.science.org)
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linkregister 1 day ago|
An algorithm did it? Or was the author of apparent sloppily-written machine instructions the actor?
wolfi1 1 day ago||
the Germans have a word for that: "vertrottelt" (in English it is just translated as "stupid", but it conveys much more meaning than stupid)
zephen 1 day ago||
> “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors.”

Time for a séance.

dreamcompiler 1 day ago||
This is what invariably happens when you give bots control of important day-to-day business operations: The bot makes some horrendous mistake and then there's no human being around who has the authority, the access, and the knowledge to both revert the bot's decision and make sure that the bot doesn't just replay the error at a later date.
nijave 1 day ago|
Privatizing gains, socializing loses

Bots and automation aren't inherently bad, but often times the motivation is pure cost savings for the company and users pay the price.

A more rational design could have a periodic human auditing process, appeal/reversal process, and a public audit/action log for clarity. However, that's going to eat into the savings of automating the whole thing so why bother

BrandoElFollito 1 day ago||
Journals are scams, sustained by scientists. All this paid by our taxes.

Scientists decided that other scientists will be ranked by coolness (where they publish). And that this is a strict process. Except when the scientist is a celebrity, such as Benaventiste and his water memory. Too cool to reject.

Hopefully this will change as information gets more and more decentralized.

psychoslave 1 day ago||
So, greed that devoured scientific publication, that's why.

Unfortunately, that's nothing new.

josefritzishere 1 day ago||
The world has gone mad.
baxtr 1 day ago|
Has it ever been sane?
mdp2021 1 day ago||
The world is "sane" when the lucid are treated as beacons and the fools are treated as the unfortunate that must stay away from the engines. Insane when the fools are empowered and the bright have to flee for shelter.
thescriptkiddie 1 day ago||
wait, springer as in axel? the guy who was in the nazi party?
akudha 1 day ago|
Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95

lol, getting paid for nothing. Highest levels of capitalism

esterna 1 day ago||
Of course, what they charge $39.95 for is in the public domain. So it's a sort of double scam.
bookofjoe 1 day ago||
"... chicks for free"

See (and listen to): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

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