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Do You Have a Conflict of Interest? This Robotic Assistant May Find It First

Updated: Jul 9, 2022


What should science do about conflicts of interest? When they are identified, they become an obstacle to objectivity — a key tenet and a cornerstone of academia and research — and the truth behind what scientists report is called into question. With such problems in mind, one publisher of open-access journals is providing an assistant to help its editors spot such problems before papers are released. But it’s not a human. The whole article was published in the New York Times.


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