The Camel’s Camel: scienceintegritydigest.com/2026/03/12/t...
#Research #AcademicResearch #ResearchMisconduct #ResearchIntegrity #AcademicWriting #AcademicSky #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #AcademicChatter #ScientificResearch #TorturedPhrases #Plagiarism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM
A cartoon drawing of a light brown camel with one hump. At the position where one might find an udder, we see a baby camel hanging. It is to illustrate the absurdity of the sentence "The definition and definition of microbes on the camel’s camel is very important ", found in the abstract of a paper about the camel udder microbiome.
New blog post: The Camel's Camel.
Today, I found a beautiful example of synonymized plagiarism involving the microbiome of a camel’s udder.
#TorturedPhrases #ScienceIntegrity #ResearchIntegrity
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Definitely seems like a #ResearchIntegrity issue is being identified here - random Latin names popping up inappropriately in research papers may be a variation of #TorturedPhrases or a #GenAI/#LLM signature - cause TBD
Check out the thread and blog updates for live sleuthing!
RT @MicrobiomDigest: "irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculous stools as of late"
A @medrxivpreprint full of #TorturedPhrases and copy/pasted data.
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Read my comments here:
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Screenshot of part of the paper: Material and methods This cross-sectional study was conducted in Foundation University Islamabad and Dow Medical College Karachi during 2021 to 2022. Data was collected from 20 patients presenting in OPD of the hospital. Patients with provocative entrail illness unclassified gave to crisis division a 3-day history of sickness, retching, migraine and irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculous stools as of late. Their pancolitis was analyzed year and a half prior. They treated with sulfasalazine and three courses of steroids up until this point and current drug was azathioprine. The earlier weeks, their provocative markers were typical. Two days before show, they contact with youngsters impacted by
"irregular stomach torment alongside discontinuous ridiculous stools as of late"
A @medrxivpreprint full of #TorturedPhrases and copy/pasted data.
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Read my comments here:
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Was nonsense ‘vegetative electron microscopy’ phrase a Farsi typo?: retractionwatch.com/2025/03/04/v...
#RetractionWatch #Farsi #ArtificalIntelligence #AI #Tipo #Translation #TorturedPhrases
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I think this is one of the worst cases of machine-"paraphrased" nonsense I've seen yet. This goes beyond #TorturedPhrases and straight into incomprehensible gibberish.
(Springer conference paper; not posted to PubPeer yet since the site's having some issues)
"Blood-mind boundary"? Science gone wrong! 🚨 Our new preprint uncovers 13 bizarre "tortured phrases" replacing blood-brain barrier (BBB) in 140+ papers. Auto-paraphrasing & poor review processes are polluting research! dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... #AcademicIntegrity #TorturedPhrases #ScienceEthics
"On the emergence of tortured phrases: A threat to scientific integrity—the example of 'heavy metal'"🧠✨
I explore how AI-generated content and misused phrases like "heavy metal" threaten scientific precision and integrity.
#ScienceIntegrity #AI #TorturedPhrases #Research
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"Fluffy networks" sounds so adorable #torturedphrases
(1/2) Today I learned that mercury is "venomous" when reading this brilliant paper. Didn't know metals could bite or sting!
Farhan et al. 2023 (DOI: 10.1007/s40726-023-00253-y)
Read more glorious quotes + learn about sketchy citations they used here:
pubpeer.com/publications...
#TorturedPhrases
@altmetric.com continuing their strong social media work with a deep dive into problematic publications, starting with early examples in the 2000s, covering #TorturedPhrases and #GenAI & #LLMs creating content at scale
A good introduction to current #PaperMills & #ResearchIntegrity issues
https://pubpeer.com/publications/2F80E74D4042BDCD3537D12BDD421E#1
https://pubpeer.com/publications/1807EE9165429DF9869C788E28D414
https://pubpeer.com/publications/FEA6697352ABDAB6C7DDDAE4B5BAA4
😵 ‘Optical and Quantum Electronics’: 48+ unreliable articles riddled with #TorturedPhrases, mostly published in 2023. I suspect papermill submissions + compromised peer review. Hereby notifying @SpringerNature and Editors: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 🇬🇧 & IL_PIB 🇵🇱. pubpeer.com/publications...
https://pubpeer.com/publications/2D38CD6B26E7FB2A01C2CBCD18242F
https://pubpeer.com/publications/2D38CD6B26E7FB2A01C2CBCD18242F
😵 #TorturedPhrases in Information Processing & Management, an Elsevier journal. 😟 I'm so disappointed: I've been reading IP&M since my MSc years. I reported 5 papers to the EiC, including this: pubpeer.com/publications.... Also declined the review invitation I had received.
[🇫🇷] Exposé en visio à 15h « Fake science : panorama des méconduites et contre-feux ». Séminaire ouvert NumeRev de MSHSUD, organisé par Lise Verlaet. Feat. #papermills, #TorturedPhrases, #ChatGPT misuse, citation cartels… L'enregistrement sera mis en ligne. www.mshsud.org/agenda/fake-...
