Friday, November 12, 2021
The only UNbroken supply chain
UncommonDescent notes yet another mass retraction of low-quality "science" articles. Most of these are clearly produced by AI and submitted by Chinese grad students who are competing ferociously to get onto the tenure track.
In the real world supply chains are broken because normal people have decided en masse that working for demons is no longer worth the torture and pain.
The only area where we have an OVERsupply is "science" articles. Grad students are eagerly competing to be the next head demon.
Journal editors are in a tough position. The entire tenure system is built to increase raw quantity. More output means more money in a simple linear function. Nobody wants quality. Truth has negative value. Fashionable lies have high value.
But a "reputable" journal may lose its reputation if it's too obviously unreadable. These AI papers are too obvious. Even the titles are nonsense, like
Distribution of earthquake activity in mountain area based on embedded system and physical fitness detection of basketball
Sucker Filter at work. Select the stupidest readers by sending out the most brazenly stupid title. After being the stupidest readers and publishing the shit, the editors at Springer have decided that they don't like the feeling of being the stupidest readers.
If the Chinese authors had been smarter, they would have made nonsensical connections to FASHIONABLE LIES.
Distribution of earthquake activity in mountain area based on embedded system and mental illness detection of Trump voters
Now you've got a high citation count, and you're on the ramp leading to a Nobel.
Labels: Editors, Sucker Filter
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