Hacker News with Generative AI: Scientific Publishing

U.S. attorney demands journal explain how it ensures 'viewpoint diversity' (nbcnews.com)
The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter this week to the editor of a scientific journal for chest doctors, implying that the journal was partisan and asking a series of questions about how the publication protects the public from misinformation, whether it included competing viewpoints and whether it was influenced by funders or advertisers.
His manuscript was rejected. Then he saw it published by other authors (retractionwatch.com)
A chemist at a university in Pakistan found a surprise when he opened an alert from ResearchGate on a newly published paper on a topic related to his own work.
ArXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to ArXiv (github.com/google-research)
This tool allows you to easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv.
Reactive HTML Notebooks (maxbo.me)
I don't think HTML is being used enough as a platform for scientific publishing.
The Extent and Consequences of P-Hacking in Science (plos.org)
A focus on novel, confirmatory, and statistically significant results leads to substantial bias in the scientific literature.
The AI expert who cited himself thousands of times on scientific paper (elpais.com)