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testtomcels (lemm.ee)
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A paper that used Midjourney to generate figures of surgical procedure.

Paper was thankfully retracted

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 days ago (4 children)

That image has been living in my head rent-free since I first saw it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

dck

Mm, yes. Quite.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Testtomcels

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Me too and I want it gone 😂

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What is even happening here?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

To summarize: paper got published last year that had this as a figure. It got widely ridiculed because there's no way that this figure passed peer review. Turns out the reviewers did point it out but the editor ignored it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

It's just science. Here's a diagram:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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