Am I misunderstanding something?

This appears to be a stunningly irresponsible story in Science, claiming that up to 30% of the scientific literature is fake.

science.org/content/article/fa

Below, the first two paragraphs of the story.

h/t @Hoch

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@ct_bergstrom @Hoch Just to add to the pile on for the worst decision tree ever - if he had just classified every paper as positive, he would have had perfect sensitivity and a slightly degraded (50%) alarm aka false positive rate.

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