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One more thing – gibberish scientific papers

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March 4, 2014 at 5:28 pm #17780

Amanda Wasielewski
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I’m sure a lot of you saw this on the news/blogs last week – but this guy at MIT developed a piece of software to create gibberish scientific papers of which 120 or so got accepted and published even though they were computer-generated nonsense.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-science-and-engineering-papers/

I think peer-review was mentioned at the end of class… relevant to that perhaps.
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