The business of false science and the ample access to scientific knowledge
An international study, performed by a group of journalists reunited in the ‘Fake science’ Project, examined a database with 175,000 articles and presentations from ‘dubious’ conferences and published the results in reputable daily newspapers (like the French Le Monde, the Norwegian Aftenpo...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP) |
| Repositorio: | Revista de Direito Sanitário (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:revistas.usp.br:article/152560 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://www.revistas.usp.br/rdisan/article/view/152560 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Fake news Access to knowledge Fake News Acesso ao conhecimento |
| Sumario: | An international study, performed by a group of journalists reunited in the ‘Fake science’ Project, examined a database with 175,000 articles and presentations from ‘dubious’ conferences and published the results in reputable daily newspapers (like the French Le Monde, the Norwegian Aftenposten, and the German Süd-deutsche Zeitung and Norddeutsche Rundfunk, among others). These results were staggering. There is a very well orchestrated business that has been taking advantage of the injunction imposed to publishers of publishing a great deal. It works like this: the societies that publish ‘dubious’ magazines or organize false scientific conferences write for researchers and companies all over the world and recommend a publication in a scientific journal. Right away they publish– for a fee – the researchers’ contributions, many times without the appropriate examination of the content. In this way, even ‘dubious’ studies come to light without the endorsement of science. |
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