Вымышленный французский ученый за год стал автором 180 статей polit.ru - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from polit.ru Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mar. 16, 2021 , 12:45 PM
Camille Noûs first appeared on the research scene 1 year ago, as a signatory to an open letter protesting French science policy. Since then, Noûs has been an author on 180 journal papers, in fields as disparate as astrophysics, molecular biology, and ecology, and is racking up citations.
But Noûs is not a real person. The name intentionally added to papers, sometimes without the knowledge of journal editors is meant to personify collective efforts in science and to protest individualism, according to RogueESR, a French research advocacy group that dreamed up the character. But the campaign is naïve and ethically questionable, says Lisa Rasmussen, a bioethicist at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. It flouts the basic principle of taking responsibility alongside the credit of authorship, she says. And some journal editors are balking at going along with the protest.