A biologist was shocked to find his name was mentioned several times in a scientific paper, which references papers that simply don’t exist.

  • phx@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Yeah that’s fair. Since Covid I’ve noticed that a bunch of the more vocal opponents online liked to pick actual scientific articles and quote small sections way out of context in order to support their “view”. It’s like using scientific articles for anti-science. That pull that shit repeatedly and piss people off, then report anyone who gets a bit to loud in their response. Seems a whole playbook these days