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Originally Posted by Pugchief
For those of you who "trust the media", "trust the experts", "trust the science" or "trust the government", or think data is unbiased or even consistently accurate:
Recent evidence indicates the constant pressure to generate data and publish papers may be affecting the quality of research and fueling retractions of research papers.
In the past decade, there have been more than 39,000 retractions, and the annual number of retractions is growing by around 23% each year.
Nearly half the retractions were due to issues related to the authenticity of the data.
Plagiarism was the second most common reason research papers were retracted, accounting for 16% of retractions.
Fake peer review was another reason why research papers were retracted.
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I just recently bought a used "vintage" (crazy to think) 1979 Webster Dictionary due to a conversation about what "agnostic" means. 2024 word salad definition results in an agnostic basically being an aethiest. 1979 a sense of openmindedness remained for an agnostic.
Interesting stuff relevant to today in a 1979 dictionary. Worth every bit of the $5 to order it off of thriftbook(dot)com.
Words matter and they are changing meanings all the time to fit narratives. Preserve history. Buy old books. Even the Bible is being changed.