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How Science Publishing Went The Way Of Bloatware

April 17, 2015 by Tara Jenson 1 Comment

Everyone’s favorite biomedical ethicist uncle, Arthur Caplan, appeared on Science Friday last week to talk about bloat and pollution.1 And no, Caplan was bearing doomsday tidings of neither a Windows operating system nor the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Caplan took to the airwaves to direct our short attention spans to the unprecedented explosion of “plagiarism, fraud,…

Filed Under: SciTech Tagged With: Arthur Caplan, fraud, plagiarism, Plastic Fantastic, publication pollution, science publication, Wakefield

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