It's Friday, May 17, 2024.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian

worldview.

Well, a major publisher of academic papers

is closing 19 academic journals.

This would be Wiley, identified by the Wall Street Journal as a 217 year old

publisher based in Hoboken, New Jersey.

On Tuesday this week it announced its closing 19 journals, quote, some of which were infected by large scale research fraud.

Now that's shocking enough. We're talking about 19 academic journals that are simply being closed because they're so infected with fraud.

But then the next sentence, quote, in the past two years, Wiley has retracted more than

11,300 papers that appeared compromised according to a spokesperson and closed four journals.

The article goes on, quote, it isn't alone at least two other publishers have retracted hundreds

of suspect papers each, several others have pulled smaller clusters of bad papers.

Now this is something I mentioned on the briefing before, but it's so important when you see

a story like this. We need to pause and just reflect that this should change the way we hear

certain news. This should change the way we hear certain claims bandied about and

it is really interesting and I mentioned this before that as you look at much of the news or what's called news

A lot of it is just picking up some kind of academic paper from somewhere picking up some kind of research that was found somewhere and then writing an article about how true this is.

You know this is exactly what goes on over and over and over again. We are told X and then we find out

well no that's not true but it's even more dangerous to be told

something like X or Y or Z and then honestly the paper was withdrawn because of research fraud and nobody tells you and so you just look at the number of headlines about 42% of Americans say this or the vast

majority of Americans say this or this particular drug was proved to be

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