Your interpretation is highly misleading because the number of retracted papers represent a tiny fraction of the total number. E.g., in 2022, only 0.2% papers were retracted. Or approximately 10,000 out of 5,000,000 papers.

Most of the retracted papers are published by researchers in non-western countries. Among countries, Saudi Arabia has the highest retraction rate, of 30 per 10,000 articles. I seriously doubt that many NIH-funded studies published in reputable journals get retracted. I’ve seen a few but there’re extremely rare.

The reason for the increase is the use of more sophisticated ai-based software to catch inconsistencies and plagiarism.

You can find more information here, but you may have to pay to access it: More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record.

I didn't know that!

I'm certainly aware of the various Christian Bible translations having different wordings for various verses. It is fascinating to read about non-religious concepts and situations in the culture of the time being reflected in that culture's translation of the Bible. I can't recall specifically now but I recall an example given of how one of the Dutch translations differed markedly in various verses from the King James Bible because of the economic views of the time being so different culture-to-culture. Add to that the fact that words themselves change meanings, or become lost to time, which also affects the accuracy of the translation in question. Just looking at the list of such words in the KJV original version is telling: words such as Amerce, Astonied, Chapmen, Wreathen, Vesture, Taches, Sottish, Pygarg, Froward, Gaddest, Holpen, Knop. Lign aloes, along with many more: present in the original KJV but whose meaning may have changed, been corrupted, or just lost to time from then until now. And that is just a translation from one form of English to another. I'm pretty sure that translations from one LANGUAGE to another suffer even more serious changes in meaning and usage.

Serious questions here: are readings from Torah done in Hebrew? And are there translations to current English that are available? I ask this because my wife is making a study of original meanings of both Old and New Testament scripture.

Only 0.2% of research publications get retracted on average
 

That’s not true. The 10,000 number comes from all branches of science.

More than 10,000 research papers were retracted in 2023 — a new record.

Whose "reality"? 🙃

Someone couldn't handle my response and reported it as political. Sad.

The flat earth example is insulting and not an argument.

It does matter where the money comes from and where it goes.

The science community once told us the earth was flat. There was consensus (not scientific) and the debate was over (who does that sound like?).

Maybe you missed the original article that showed how a huge percentage of scientific papers are frauds.

Please let us know what you did for a living.

Can I take a guess....Kyrie Irving?

I must have missed it as well. What huge percentage of papers were fraudulent?

Why? What difference does that make? Unless you think you can use that as a source to embarrass them or one up them or use it as a reason they should be ignored ("oh! That explains it") what they did to earn a living doesn't, or shouldn't, matter.

I wasn’t talking to you but if they don’t know what they are talking about then they should be ignored. Frankly, I get tired of having people criticize scientists they don’t know who are engaged in science they don’t understand. Any other questions?

Wait wait wait....you usually have your shine box out for the scientific community in countless threads. The individual you're addressing is defending the profession. So your post appears to be friendly fire.

"Please let us know what you did for a living. " That was what you wrote. I am one of "us". Your question included me thusly. I am a defender of science, as I assume you are. If you disagree with a position or argument, address said position or argument. Asking someone what they did for a living in no way addresses the argument. It is a request for ones personal information. Once in possession of one's personal information, one wonders how you intended to use it as regarding the argument? My mother was a housewife. One would think she was not likely highly educated or conversant on many subjects, but they would be very wrong. One's "work" is not indicative of one's interests or knowledge. That's all.

Hope 155 answers you as well. Just want to stay on track. Let the other side fight dirty. It's their only chance. Oh, and their mothers wear army boots! (Did I say that?)
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I guess you'd have to read the posted article. Over 10,000 papers in the last decade, and those are only the known frauds. That's probably not statistically huge given the number of papers, but it's growing.

How many have not been reviewed? What percentage are reviewed?