research integrity

  1. Michael Harrop

    Study Some scientists are using chatbots to write all or part of their papers. 454 words that have increased in studies since ChatGPT was released (Jul 2025) Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/health/ai-chatgpt-research-papers.html https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813 I think this is a huge problem given how flawed the peer review system is. I highly doubt that peer review is able to adequately fact-check the papers and all the...
  2. Michael Harrop

    Article Scientist behind Alzheimer’s drug in late-stage trials is indicted on charges of research fraud. The charges are related to alleged fabrication of research images and data that Hoau-Yan Wang may have used to secure federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (Jun 2024)

    https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/scientist-alzheimers-drug-candidate-indicted-charges-research-fraud-rcna159537
  3. Michael Harrop

    Article ‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point. Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg (Feb 2024)

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situation-has-become-appalling-fake-scientific-papers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point Freakonomics podcasts on academic fraud. Discussing what motivates it and some suggestions for mitigating the problem...
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