Taxacom: Science fraud - Nature
John Grehan
calabar.john at gmail.com
Thu Aug 24 12:58:26 CDT 2023
Recently when I noted about ZooNova as a publication option, a Taxacom
colleague implied (oof list) that the journal was dubious because he
considered one (or more) papers to be dubious (in that person's judgement).
Here is a classic case of a 'Top' journal retracting a paper, showing that
the supposed 'prestige' of a journal has nothing necessarily to do with its
content. In this case it was picked up on because the paper in question
appears to have run afoul of a sufficient number of prominent or
influential researchers. In biogeography this does not happen, as the
prominent (powerful and influential) players all play to the fraud (that
being the misrepresentation of what CODA methods can or cannot do or
support). Power is everything in science.
Top science publisher Springer Nature said it has withdrawn a study that
presented misleading conclusions on climate change impacts after an
investigation prompted by an AFP inquiry.
AFP reported in September 2022 on concerns over the peer-reviewed study by
four Italian scientists that appeared earlier that year in the European
Physical Journal Plus, published by Springer Nature.
The study had drawn positive attention from climate-sceptic media.
The paper, titled "A critical assessment of extreme events trends in times
of global warming", purported to review data on possible changes in the
frequency or intensity of rainfall, cyclones, tornadoes, droughts and other
extreme weather events.
Several climate scientists contacted by AFP said the study manipulated
data, cherry picked facts and ignored others that would contradict their
assertions, prompting the publisher to launch an internal review.
"The Editors and publishers concluded that they no longer had confidence in
the results and conclusions of the article," Springer Nature told AFP in an
email late Wednesday.
The journal's editors published an online note stating that the paper was
retracted due to concerns over "the selection of the data, the analysis and
the resulting conclusions".
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