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The ‘publish or perish’ mentality is fuelling research paper retractions – and undermining science

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  • Meh, retractions are best case. Publish or perish is causing

    -low quality work: anything with a .05 result wins, whatever the contortions necessary

    -zero repeatability: one of the science fundamentals, but not publishable.

    -related, negative results are not published

    -people leaving science for better pay / conditions cause PoP sucks donkey dicks