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Ben Van Calster
@BenVanCalster
Medical statistician, full professor KU Leuven. Prediction, running, cycling, walking, darts.
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Beschuldiging aan het adres van een Vlaamse professor (@ugent)... Dit tijdschrift is alleszins al een tijd erg problematisch.
Jörg Rinklebe & Sabry M Shaheen (@Uni_Wuppertal); Daniel C.W. Tsang (@hkust) & Yong Sik Ok (Korea university) suffer another retraction because their friend, corrupt editor, Filip Tack from @ugent edited there paper! 👇#fraud
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😳 Money is being made, OK, but come on! We have to get our priorities right.
This. Academia fails on so many levels, but it feels to me that many people in it haven't noticed yet and still feel complacent. Keep publishing!
Academia is a profession that only works if it is grounded in high trust. (Nobody goes around manually checking every single citation in everyone else's work.) But if you erode that trust by relaxing expectations & standards, then academia as a *profession* is itself undermined.View quoted post on X
"Academic" publishing! Avoid Frontiers and MDPI, and be wary of any for profit publisher. I joined as an AE for Frontiers in Epidemiology a few years ago but quickly ran away when it became clear how they worked. Zero authenticity, chasing you all the time for BS.
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience (part of @FrontNeurosci). It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇View quoted post on X
