Why Bad Science Is Sometimes More Appealing Than Good Science | Scientific American | 12/3/21

Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-bad-science-is-sometimes-more-appealing-than-good-science/

Summary:

Bad Science is often more popular than good science. This is because bad science is often used to catch the readers eye and can be considered as fake news. Often papers including bad science are often published by editors because they don't want to let a potentially breakthrough paper be published by anyone else.

3 Fun Facts

1. An analysis of 126,000 rumor cascades on Twitter showed that false news spread faster and reached more people than verified true claims.

2. Fake news online was more unusual than normal news

3. "showy" papers are often held to a lower standard by editors and readers