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George Washington: Swamp Ghost Hunter, Cockroach Chocolate, Science Scams

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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The Fraud of Tinder

Fraudulent retracted papers scored significantly higher than those retracted for other reasons. fraudulent papers used 1.5% more jargon than unretracted papers. So scientific scammers will cover their lives by manipulating language like using fewer positive emotion terms to describe the data so no one looks into it. We're dating up the obfuscation of Tinder.

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