Stephen Downes

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The Association for Computational Linguistics, on removing around 100 papers for containing fake references, makes a statement that really should be unnecessary: "Scientific integrity requires that every claim and reference be grounded in verifiable reality... An author who fabricates a citation commits a serious breach of ethics." Via Dawn Ahuhanna, who comments, "You had 1 job-do research(FA) & share written findings(FO)." Also via Tito.

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