David Allison

Long answer is we're at the stage of infancy and amateurishness with it.

So it's coming.

It'll get better and better.

But we can do some very simple things now.

People look for these so-called tortured phrases.

When you find these phrases that kind of look like a word salad, that's sort of a hint often that you've got something plagiarized or just fabricated.

We can look in some circumstances for things that literally don't add up.

So some people made something called the GRIM test.

I forget what it's an acronym, but it's basically when you know, let's say you have a Likert scale and you know you have a certain number of subjects, then the mean of that scale can only have certain values.

And if you say, hey, it doesn't have one of those values, something must be wrong.

Those are examples.

I don't know if there's one person who's leading it.

I think James Heathers, who's now got a position, part of the challenge with a lot of these so-called data sleuths is it's hard to get paid to do that.

So I get paid to be, I was a paid dean and now I'm a paid center director and kind of in my spare time, my

do a little sleuthing.

People like James Heathers, where it's more his full-time gig, it's hard to get paid.

But Retraction Watch set something up for him.

See, he's one.

Tracy Weisberger over in Europe is another.

There's a woman whose name I'm unfortunately going to mispronounce, but who's a Dutch scientist who came up with something called StatCheck.