hbplawinski

I'm kind of surprised that there is no test case that would have identified the fact that delete_where() leaves the state corrupted. There would be no need to ask Fable if the problem gets identified by the test. And having a test will also catch all future problems that might arise in the same function. So maybe instead of asking Claude what is wrong it would be wiser to invest in test coverage.

I doubt that this is true except maybe for the top journals. Mid and low tier journals cater to scientists whose main incentive is to publish no matter how while moderately optimizing for impact factor (i.e. readers and citations). This lower quality market is huge. The fact that even top tier publishers have created low-ranking journals that address this market segment using APC-based open-access models shows the alignment between publisher and author interests will not necessarily lead to increasing quality, rather the opposite.

In more recent research, the E.coli Nissle strain was found to produce the genotoxin colibactin which is potentially linked to colorectal cancer (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34378987/, among others). If this is a serious problem for the probiotic use is still unclear, but there is some research on how to replace it with a genetically modified strain that does not produce the genotoxin.