A Pandemic of Retractions
Goodbye Hindawi, sob sob….how much for a degree?
The two geezers in the TTE office have often lamented the state and standards of contemporary biomedical publishing.
Remember when we told the story of how mega journals jumped on spun and ghostwritten Tamiflu trials? Remember the story of trying to answer the question of asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2? Out of 444 studies, 18 could be trusted to report accurate data; the rest were, well, trash. We even complained about the state of “science” in a podcast.
We let out the dirty little secret that editorial peer review as a mark of quality has never been properly tested. We cannot even agree on what is good and bad science. Tom even wrote the book on Peer Review in Health Sciences.
Well, we have another dirty little story reported by ABC News to share with you.
The Wiley publishing empire, worth $3 US billion, is under pressure. In 2021, they bought the infamous Hindawi predatory publishing business for more than the two TTE geezers would make in a hundred lifetimes. They must have…
