Sixty seconds on . . . bad acronyms

BRB (Be right back . . .)Hear me out. Researchers have developed computer software that can detect “tortured acronyms.”ROFL! (Rolling on the floor laughing)Don’t LOL (laugh out loud) just yet. The scientists, from the University of Toulouse in France, say that these red flags can point to deeper problems with a study paper, which could help root out research misconduct. Take the acronym CNN: not the news organisation but a term apparently equated to “convolutional brain organisation,” even though the acronym isn’t right. The scientists say that if such a “tortured acronym” appears in a paper it probably wasn’t carefully written or revised by human authors. “CNN,” for instance, probably altered an earlier wording—“convolutional neural network”—to hide plagiarism. But in doing so the authors forgot to change the acronym too. And it’s probably a sign of more serious issues with the paper.TMM (Tell me more)Conference proceedings are often a standout…
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