Definition
Plain language
A family of open-access science journals.
As stated in the literature
Public Library of Science; open-access publisher whose ordinary biochemistry articles were used as uncontested control probes in TRACES.
Also called: PLoS ONE
Why it matters: Uncontested papers provide the baseline that shows how a model behaves when the source is perfectly sound.
For example, an ordinary biochemistry paper published in one of these journals was used as a clean comparison case that nobody disputes.
Heard on the show
“It fired on every life-science and clinical paper in the set, and on all five uncontested, perfectly ordinary biochemistry papers the authors pulled at random from PLoS as controls.”Episode 240 — Frontier Models Designed Follow-Ups To Fraudulent Papers 93% Of The Time