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Old 09-27-2024, 07:38 AM
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Originally Posted by CybrSage View Post
11,300 of the retractions were for only two branches of science, not all of them.

If we are going to evaluate science, let's at least use the data correctly.
And in the first point, I said “Assume….” Not that I believed the number. My point is that retractions are a tiny percentage of all papers published. Given the resources at hand, I didn’t think I could come up with an accurate number of the actual retractions in a relatively short period of time.
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