In the news media it’s pretty well-established that lies spread faster and further than articles debunking them. I’m not sure what the case in science is. At least the top scientific journals, for all their faults, seem to do a decent job of only publishing credible research.
Debunking bad science is a really important job, but not a pleasant one. It can’t have been fun reading through all those garbage articles
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It's actually quite surprising how corrupt science can be. It's a great truth that the anti-science folk love to prey upon to conclude science is bunk. The reality is the scientists are, not science. Credible research happens because science has its own self-correcting mechanism that inevitably sifts out the crap but human nature persists because... money, and reputation.
So these ugly garbage articles can persist cause they don't have to go through the same crap. I'm sure you know all this. Just ranting. Argh!