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Ole Bjørn Rekdal

@obrekdal.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, interested in science and nonsense.

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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There were quite a few examples of this at Twitter. My article (due to the trap in the abstract) has in fact made a significant contribution to the spread of the myth of the decimal point error. Iron-ic, isn't it?
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
You are a role model! What you did was the equivalent to the citation (Rekdal, 2014, cited in Kohn, 2026). A much better alternative than plagiarizing a citation, or reposting something uncritically.
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Does it help if I write her a message, apologizing for putting a trap in my abstract?
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Perhaps you can use this? www.forskningsetikk.no/en/resources...
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Shades of grey in academic citation practice
Academic citation practices are often described in black and white terms. Concrete examples are often classified as ‘correct’ or ‘wrong’, or may be ‘honest’ or ‘fraudulent’. This type of categorizatio...
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
There is yet another twist to the story: Many social media users (especially on Twitter) have revived the decimal point error story by tweeting about my article after just reading the abstract. There was a trap in there.
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Citation plagiarism (but I would call that fraud) played a role in the opiod epidemic: slate.com/technology/2...
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A Short Blurb Helped Cause the Opioid Crisis. That’s Just the Start of Science’s Citation Woes.
The New York Times reported last week that 59,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2016, in the latest sign that America’s prescription painkiller...
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
An error in the citation ("addiction rare" turned into "addiction rate") could in this case be used to indicate citation plagiarism and how this malpractice could contribute to the myth that opioids are not particularly addictive: slate.com/technology/2...
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A Short Blurb Helped Cause the Opioid Crisis. That’s Just the Start of Science’s Citation Woes.
The New York Times reported last week that 59,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2016, in the latest sign that America’s prescription painkiller...
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Ole Bjørn Rekdal @obrekdal.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Rekdal, O. B. (2014). Monuments to Academic Carelessness: The Self-fulfilling Prophecy of Katherine Frost Bruner. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 39(5), 744-758. doi.org/10.1177/0162...
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