ChristianKl comments on Link: Evidence-Based Medicine Has Been Hijacked - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 16 March 2016 09:27:59PM 0 points [-]

Some professional coauthors will probably die but will continue to have their names placed on new publications several years posthumously. The submitting author may forget that they are long dead, buried among dozens of automatically listed co-authors.

That seems to be a falsibiable prediction. It might also be a good tool to shame wrong-doers.

Comment author: HungryHobo 17 March 2016 11:42:07AM 1 point [-]

In theory yes but in practice it's hard to untangle from papers where someone was a proper, real coauthor or contributor but died before publication.