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That there’s even a question as to whether they’ll be fired is wild.
They should be completely blacklisted from the profession.
What really grinds my gears about this is that infant weight is one of the most obvious confounders to check for. It's literally one of the first biomarkers that gets measured after birth. Any first year graduate student could have told you that you need to include that in your regression.
How did it make it past peer review?
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How did it make it past peer review?
This paper too passed peer review, and it happened last year when generative AI was gaining a lot of attention. The paper was retracted after researchers pointed it out on X it was there for quite some time. It was absurd and completely AI made. I think you can't be so sure of peer reviewed papers much.
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It's not the same. The one you point to looks potentially like a predatory journal (the editor is from the National Dairy Institute of India.)
The 2020 paper I'm referring to was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious general interest scientific journals in the entire world.
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Do we know this was the first journal submitted to?
Maybe they just got lucky and maybe they kept submitting until they got a set of reviewers who didn’t pick up on that.
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To be fair, I only found out about this today but the story is months old. I don't know what the current status is. But I know it took years for Francesca Geno to be fired from Harvard for manipulating research data
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