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I Am an Academic Fraud
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distant_hat
on Sept 28, 2021
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vkk8
on Sept 28, 2021
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campbell%27s_law
Accujack
on Sept 28, 2021
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AKA "You get the performance you measure"
raxxorrax
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Sadly not too surprising and there are probably many that are reminded of their academic careers. Well, hopefully it isn't medicine.
dunefox
on Sept 28, 2021
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The post has been deleted. Does anyone have a mirror or summary?
rtkaratekid
on Sept 28, 2021
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From the context of the comments it spins like the individual’s PI coerced or forced them to publish inaccurate or falsified data in order to have a paper accepted. That was about the best I could figure.
shubik22
on Sept 28, 2021
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https://web.archive.org/web/20210927215038/https://www.reddi...
tomekf
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full text:
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhD/comments/pwmylt/i_am_an_academi...
dunefox
on Sept 28, 2021
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Blackthorn
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At this point, if someone has that level of research output cited in that post, I just assume they're cheating.
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