Researchers have exposed various issues in scientific publishing, including duplicated images and fabricated data. Their findings have led to the retraction of flawed papers and changes in policies. However, some prominent researchers express concern that their work is being misappropriated to suggest that all science is unreliable. A notable example includes US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who referenced fraudulent studies on Alzheimer's during his Senate confirmation hearing, misusing these examples to undermine the credibility of scientific institutions like the NIH.
We try to point out those bad papers because we still believe in science and want to make science better. But, I am very worried about how the work we do in pointing out bad papers is currently being misused, or even weaponized, to convince the general public that all science is bad.
Kennedy stated that Alzheimer's disease is now characterized in the medical literature as Type 3 Diabetes. In an earlier hearing, he had said there is no cure for the illness purely because of corruption at NIH.
#scientific-integrity #research-fraud #public-trust-in-science #peer-review-issues #alzheimers-disease
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