Tortured phrases: How weird wording is slipping into real science
Have you seen odd wording in science articles lately? A recent look at journal papers found many strange replacements — like strange, new terms standing for normal ideas.
We call them tortured phrases and they make clear meaning hard to find.
Some papers read like they was passed through a bad rewriter, full of AI rewrite flavour and odd word choices.
That may explain why some journals now host what look like fake papers, with odd citations and repeated images, things that should have been caught in review.
We checked one journal and it showed more of these flagged abstracts than others, which is worrying for peer review systems.
This matters because trust in science falls when readers can't tell real work from padded text, and the whole integrity of the literature is at risk.
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People deserve papers that explain ideas not hide them behind weird words, so we can all understand and trust the research.
Read article comprehensive review in Paperium.net:
Tortured phrases: A dubious writing style emerging in science. Evidence ofcritical issues affecting established journals
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