FundMECFS

Exactly this.

The news loves this kind of stuff.

[Thing Associated with not being poor or chronically ill is Linked to Thing associated with not being poor or chronically ill]

And then they love the narrative that [thing that’s hard to afford] is actually the reason not just a correlate.

Aren’t catfish venemous? I was told never to handle a live one. Especially it’s back.

Exactly.

There are plenty of retraction worthy papers still standing. I think most in academia have come to the realisation that as of the late 2010s and early 2020s the ratio of decent paper to slop has gotten so bad that most bad papers are just ignored, not retracted.

Is this real? Like do people do this?

So what is it actually?