A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.
A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.
Assuming this is carelessness, this just goes to show that working in academia isn’t an indicator of critical thinking skills IMO
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Sure, let’s make this about China when 4 out of 5 of the authors credited for the original article are from Africa.
While only one of which was from China. This doesn’t even address the fact that the republished paper came from Mawcha which describes a study on millipedes in… Africa. Guess what, Wenxiang Yang wasn’t even credited in this version. Was your reply carelessness or dishonesty and lack of integrity? I don’t care where the misinformation and carelessness comes from as long as we’re making efforts to stop it, but this is highly ironic.
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FWIW, last author is not automatically most senior. That is the way some fields do it, but others do it strictly by amount contributed to the paper. I have been both first and last author on different papers during my first post-doc.
Honestly, I bet he has the skills, he just didn’t use them because he didn’t care, or is overworked, or for whatever reason.
You make a valid point, and there are certainly more considerations than my original reply would lead one to believe. Cheers.
A lot of people don’t understand the limitations/weaknesses of AI. The carelessness was probably more in not actually learning about the tool he was relying on (and just assuming it was reliable information).
It’s like the aeroplane lawyer case some time ago. People treat the computer as an arbiter of truth, and/or think checking is just asking the chatbot “Did you use a real citation for this?”.