Instances of research misconduct, plagiarism, and academic corruption are on the rise, with concerns about data fabrication, reproducibility crisis, and predatory journals. Complaints allege serial plagiarism among diversity deans at MIT, leading to calls for a reevaluation of the peer review process and journal closures due to fake science.
There's no hard proof that DEI is more prone to plagiarism than other fields. On the other hand, the fact that it's so rampant among DEI officers at /elite/ universities—which are theoretically hiring the most qualified DEI professionals—does suggest a field-wide problem. https://t.co/UxaV3DUmV3
More plagiarism, sadly. I would love to see an agenda-free random sampling study of plagiarism across all of academia and by discipline and rank. Because DEI-supporters are currently being targeted we have no idea whether these cases are out of the norm (just like psych was the… https://t.co/4AgfAn7F2E
“Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures: Wiley to shutter 19 more journals, some tainted by fraud” Academic corruption is endemic and disgraceful. We are long overdue for a total rethinking of the entire peer review process. https://t.co/hL7eQWoG0X
MIT Hired Six New Diversity Deans. Two of Them Are Serial Plagiarists, Complaint Alleges. https://t.co/tuKSbKtILr @Babbling_Beaver
"the frequency of research misconduct, data fabrication, reproducibility crisis, paper mills, predatory journals, citation manipulations, peer-review biases, and paper retractions are alarming and appear to be rising" https://t.co/G9hfx5q0Dx