Medical students are using popular research tool to pump out misleading studies

Researcher/academics pay/promotoins should be contingent on reviewing,challenging and reproducing papers rather than publishing quantity, because publishing cartels and AI has already degraded most research fields.

My assumption is the credibility of a non-PhD-holding medical student’s research is 0, just like (almost) any other inexperienced researcher.

Feels like the minimum standard should be sharing the exact query/design choices and being very explicit about what biases the analysis can and cannot address

admissions and residency matching give a lot of weight to "research output", aka publications.

For residency, the two most important things are: 1) board scores. 2) research output.

It's not uncommon to see 40-50 publications for competitive residencies.

incentives, incentives, incentives.

AI BS sourced from even more BS

They're just generating observational hypotheses for future investigators to examine further and maybe test in a trial. It should be presented as an observational hypothesis.

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90% biomedicine papers are bullshit. These students are just practicing bullshit.