RE: For 25 years, medical literature published invented clinical cases and no one noticed: the new scandal in pediatric literature
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Trusting peer-reviewed medical studies is something we take for granted.
that is a mistake hehehe you need to always be skeptical and read everything if it makes sense, the methodology etc, of course if we aren't specialists in a topic is more difficult to make this assumption.
In my Master's, I was going to validate some results from a paper, I went step by step and never got the same results than the author... when that happens a scientific article loses its value!
Impact factor is something that is very political, but anyway, most of the times explain a lot . This journal looks like one of those that accepts anything with bad peer review. Not all low IF journals are bad, but it is easier to find bad journals at this level... If you go over IF 3, usually the quality improves. But also when there is some shit the fall is bigger xD
I guess no one ever bothered to double check and do what you did, like 'naaah I'm tired, I can't be arsed to try too' and took it for granted 😅