The History of Chemistry
The History of Chemistry
Steve Cohen
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126: Run of the Mill
22 minutes Posted Jun 23, 2024 at 9:00 pm.
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In which we talk of a huge problem currently plaguing chemistry (and science in general), the "paper mill," in which researchers pay to get their name attached to others' publications, or they write fraudulent publications and pay to get them in print. We hear of a Chinese firm discovered to be such a broker, possible reasons why chemists would fake research, and specific examples of chemical fraud. One insidious problem is faked crystallographic data on molecular structures, uploaded to repo...