{"id":2244474,"date":"2024-05-14T17:29:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trust-the-science-19-scientific-journals-shutting-down-simultaneously-after-being-rocked-by-retractions-and-fraud-report\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T21:35:28","slug":"trust-the-science-19-scientific-journals-shutting-down-simultaneously-after-being-rocked-by-retractions-and-fraud-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trust-the-science-19-scientific-journals-shutting-down-simultaneously-after-being-rocked-by-retractions-and-fraud-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning Science? 19 Journals Close Amid Retractions and Fraud Scandal: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrust-the-science-19-scientific-journals-shutting-down-simultaneously-after-being-rocked-by-retractions-and-fraud-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2244474&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The report, featuring commentary\u2064 by Allison Anton, challenges \u200bthe mantra &#8220;Trust the science,&#8221; highlighting ethical concerns in scientific\u2063 publishing. It\u2064 exposes a scandal where academic journals are \u2063forced to close due\u200c to fraudulent submissions from paper mills. The \u200cincident sheds light on the vulnerabilities of\u2063 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-image-claims-a-new-study-found-ivermectin-causes-sterility-in-85-of-men\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Image Claims A \u2018New\u2019 Study Found Ivermectin Causes Sterility In 85% Of Men\">peer review process<\/a> and\u200d the need for critical assessment \u2064of scientific claims. The report, including\u200c insights from Allison Anton, questions the &#8220;Trust the science&#8221; slogan, \u200bemphasizing ethical \u2062issues in scientific publishing. \u2062It uncovers a scandal leading to the shutdown of academic journals due to fraudulent submissions from paper mills. \u200bThis exposes weaknesses in\u2063 the peer \u200breview system\u2063 and underscores the importance of critically\u2064 evaluating scientific assertions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 14, 2024 at 2:09pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cTrust the science\u201d was always a stupid phrase, deployed by leftist institutions, government and the establishment media to silence opposition to the woke cause of the moment.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s to force compliance with the concept of \u201cclimate change,\u201d or coerce behavior in the depths of the coronavirus pandemic, the phrase has been a cudgel wielded by the powerful.<\/p>\n<p>It means nothing, seeing as \u201cscience\u201d is hardly a monolithic block of infallible knowledge, with scientists constantly disagreeing with each other in the midst of making new discoveries.<\/p>\n<p>But now, with a scourge of false submissions ravaging the academic journal industry, the establishment media\u2019s favorite phrase seemed more farcical than ever.<\/p>\n<p>According to an exclusive report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/science\/academic-studies-research-paper-mills-journals-publishing-f5a3d4bc?mod=hp_lead_pos3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>, one of the largest academic publishers in the world, Hoboken, New Jersey-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wiley<\/a>, is being forced to to shut down 19 different journals thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cdc-ends-covid-19-vaccination-cards\/\" title=\"CDC Stops Issuing COVID-19 Vaccine Cards\">black market industry<\/a> of \u201cpaper mills\u201d submitting thousands of fake papers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaper mills,\u201d often based in countries like China or India, offer to create papers on behalf of beleaguered academics.<\/p>\n<p>Charging fees anywhere from $50-$8000, they deliver a (possibly AI-generated) paper filled with shoddy research, irrelevant references, and \u201ctortured phrases\u201d designed to elude plagiarism detectors (the worst possibly being \u201cbosom peril\u201d for \u201cbreast cancer\u201d). The mills then submit the fraudulent papers to multiple journals simultaneously, the Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Journal, while Wiley attributed the closures of these journals to low submission rates and rebranding, the problem of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harvards-chief-diversity-officer-takes-massive-blow-slapped-40-accusations-plagiarism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fake papers<\/a> could not be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Wiley\u2019s biggest scandal of 2023 occurred, when, after acquiring the open access Egyptian publisher Hindawi for the eye-watering sum of $300 million, it was forced to retract 8,000 articles after it was found they were AI generated papers from paper mills, <a href=\"https:\/\/retractionwatch.com\/2023\/12\/19\/hindawi-reveals-process-for-retracting-more-than-8000-paper-mill-articles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Retraction Watch<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Do you have less trust in scientific research now than you did 10 years ago?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Moreover, Wiley retracted, in total, over 11,300 articles over the course of the last two years alone, and closed four other journals compromised by these paper mills, the Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>All told, Wiley has lost millions of dollars thanks to these fake papers, with interim President and Chief Executive Matthew Kissner estimating the company could lose up to $40 million in revenue in 2024 because of the Hindawi problems, according to the Journal.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/network\/publishing\/research-publishing\/open-access\/hindawi-publication-manipulation-whitepaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December report<\/a>, Wiley placed the scandal in the context of a hyped-up \u201cpublish or perish\u201d mindset that has long been part of academia and pressures researchers to accrue as many scholarly papers in their name.<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless an academic is constantly getting published in prestigious journals, they will have a greater disadvantage when it comes to getting highly competitive jobs and, especially, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/liberal-privilege-professor-lands-cushy-job-holding-machete-mans-throat-bullying-pro-life-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tenured position<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn today\u2019s scholarly publishing world, researchers are contending with increasing pressures to publish, creating a susceptibility to unethical manipulation through papermills, peer review rings, and other forms of fraud,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n<p>After all, this is an industry worth some $30 billion, academic journals bearing a outsized influence over academia as a whole<\/p>\n<p>Which, as science website <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/2022\/06\/16\/why-wont-academia-let-go-of-publish-or-perish\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Undark<\/a> noted in 2022, has led to too many rushed and poorly researched articles flooding scientific journals (never mind the frauds that have compromised Wiley).<\/p>\n<p>Thus, desperate, dishonest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/western-journal-publisher-tells-conservatives-academia-destroyed-mainstream-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">academics<\/a> have fallen prey to the lure of these illegal operations to get something, anything, out there in a reputable journal, and too many of those journals have fallen for it.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dorothy Bishop, a now-retired research psychologist who has studied the phenomenon of fraudulent papers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/scientific-publishing\/retraction-she-wrote-dorothy-bishops-life-after-research\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">she was profiled<\/a> last year in the brand new online neuroscience journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simonsfoundation.org\/2023\/11\/13\/new-neuroscience-publication-the-transmitter-will-inform-and-connect-the-field\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Transmitter<\/a>), told Retraction Watch that \u201cpublish or perish\u201d didn\u2019t cover it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe report presents Hindawi as a victim of an \u2018academic culture of \u2018publish or perish\u2019, which has incentivized unethical behaviour,\u2019\u201d Bishop told Retraction Watch. \u201cWhat it omits is the influence of the commercial publisher culture of greed, which aims for massive growth in the number of published papers, with associated growth in profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beyond who gained and who lost, though, is this larger point that this scandal has cracked the facade of the left\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trust-science-americas-oldest-prestigious-science-magazine-goes-full-woke-basic-biology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trust the science<\/a>\u201d mantra.<\/p>\n<p>Because, science was never an authority or an institution \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trust-science-huge-covid-testing-company-engaged-scandalous-cover-says-heartland-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> is a process.<\/p>\n<p>Scientific conclusions lay people and academics thought ironclad just 50 years ago have been overturned by new research in the intervening years, and conclusions people today believe infallible will be probably be subject to the same fate.<\/p>\n<p>And, like any process, since it is conducted by fallible men and women, science can be manipulated and used for nefarious purposes like anything else.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeer-reviewed\u201d science has been used to silence opposition, but, at least in Wiley\u2019s case, clearly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-fda-puts-political-agenda-womens-health-approving-new-counter-contraceptive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peer-review<\/a> was not an adequate defense measure against tens of thousands fraudulent papers.<\/p>\n<p>Science has achieved great good in the modern world, but it was never an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/paleontologists-just-took-closer-look-renowned-fossil-1930s-realize-science-fooled-nearly-century\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> infallible<\/a> authority that could explain every mystery in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, a dose of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dr-moss-will-lose-medical-license-writing-piece-covid-medical-establishment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">healthy skepticism<\/a> regarding scientific claims was never a bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>Especially when the establishment media has frequently used those claims as a manipulation tactic to push an agenda repugnant to most ordinary people.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>I heard a chilling comment the other day: \u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d 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No, former U.S. national security advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said that to the founder of The Western Journal, Floyd Brown.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Gen. Flynn\u2019s warning means that the 2024 election is the most important election for every single living American. If we lose this one to the wealthy elites who hate us, hate God, and hate what America stands for, we can only assume that 248 years of American history and the values we hold dear to our hearts may soon vanish.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The end game is here, and as Benjamin Franklin said, \u201cWe must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>All of this means that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>, it\u2019s over. We have the platform, the journalists, and the experience to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-rises-as-he-promises-hes-only-begun-to-fight-put-on-full-armor-of-god-to-fight-the-left\/\" title=\"DeSantis Rises As He Promises He\u2019s \u2018Only Begun To Fight\u2019: \u2018Put On Full Armor Of God\u2019 To Fight The Left\">fight back hard<\/a>, but Big Tech is strangling us through advertising blacklists, shadow bans, and algorithms. Did you know that we\u2019ve been blacklisted by 90% of advertisers? Without direct support from you, our readers, we can\u2019t continue the fight.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Can we count on <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>your support<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>? It may not seem like much, but a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Western Journal Membership<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  can make all the difference in the world because when you support us directly, you cut Big Tech out of the picture. They lose control. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>A monthly Western Journal Membership costs less than one coffee and breakfast sandwich each month, and it gets you access to ALL of our content \u2014 news, commentary, and premium articles. You\u2019ll experience a radically reduced number of ads, and most importantly you will be vitally supporting the fight for America\u2019s soul in 2024.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We are literally counting on you because without our members, The Western Journal would cease to exist. Will you <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>join us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  in the fight? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Sincerely,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45810\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45810\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45810\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45810\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Allison Anton dabbles in fiction, as well as commenting on depressing modern trends and media. She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a loving home for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary By Allison Anton on May 14, 2024 at 2:09pm dismisses &#8220;Trust the science&#8221; as a tactic used by leftist entities to suppress dissent against the current woke ideology. 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