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mwmisses4289

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1. Isn't the first author male?

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Thu Jul 9, 2026, 11:16 PM

10 hrs ago

Don't really know how authorship of scientific articles work.
Trying to figure out what exactly the article was supposed to be about- the release of free radicals from a particular type of microplastic that was more toxic than other forms of microplastics?
Sounds worse than the "study" that started the whole idiotic "vaccines-cause-autism-don't-vaccinate-your-child" hysteria nonsense.

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She should lose her job for the scale of this retraction. [View all] NNadir 10 hrs ago OP

Isn't the first author male? mwmisses4289 10 hrs ago #1

The first author is Professor Baikun Li (identified by an asterisk in the citation). NNadir 10 hrs ago #3

Thank for the explanation. mwmisses4289 9 hrs ago #4

Generative AI often seems to bring out the worst in a lot of AI users. It's great for fraud. highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #2

Oh, she just misunderstood the meaning of "U Conn". eppur_se_muova 8 hrs ago #5

Love science. Self correcting over time. multigraincracker 5 hrs ago #6