Hacker News with Generative AI: Scientific Misconduct

Highly cited engineer offers guaranteed publication in return for coauthorship (retractionwatch.com)
Last year, a researcher at a U.S. university received an email offering what the subject line described as a “great opportunity to publish an article.”
To what extent is science a strong-link problem? (svpow.com)
Here’s a fascinating and worrying news story in Science: a top US researcher apparently falsified a lot of images (at least) in papers that helped get experimental drugs on the market — papers that were published in top journals for years, and whose problems have only recently become apparent because of amateur sleuthing through PubPeer.