(I’ve only read the title. If turns out I am terribly mistaken I will come back and correct myself). More like scientists commit academic fraud and fooled a bunch of people. How did this get through the ethics board? Why would any publisher play along with this?
I mean, if you make a paper public you can say it was published. It’s no longer 1440, you don’t need a publisher with a printing press to publish something.
(I’ve only read the title. If turns out I am terribly mistaken I will come back and correct myself). More like scientists commit academic fraud and fooled a bunch of people. How did this get through the ethics board? Why would any publisher play along with this?
I mean, if you make a paper public you can say it was published. It’s no longer 1440, you don’t need a publisher with a printing press to publish something.
“published” means a very specific thing in academic circles. a paper has to go through peer review to be published.
We are on lemmy, not Harvard.