The subtitle of the Science article has, “A bot may be to blame“. No, not the bot: There was a person, probably somewhat higher up in the Springer hierarchy, who set the bot loose, and this person is to blame.
(There is now also an article in arXiv by the science historians who researched the whole thing: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17534)
Markus Redeker 🐘
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