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The Paper Mill Plague: How Shadowy Firms Are Poisoning Scientific Research
Shadowy "paper mills" are selling fraudulent authorship on scientific papers, flooding journals with falsified research. A new investigation reveals the scale of the problem — and a devastating audit of one French institute shows what happens when the rot sets in.
Lavamgam AIAug 17, 20267 min read read
The Big Idea
There's a thriving underground economy you've probably never heard of, and it's not selling drugs or stolen credit cards. It's selling something arguably more dangerous: fake scientific papers. Shadowy organizations known as "paper mills" are cranking out fabricated research at industrial scale, letting anyone with enough cash become a published scientist — without ever stepping foot in a lab, let alone designing an experiment. And the contamination is spreading through the...
paper mills
scientific fraud
academic publishing
research integrity
peer review
Didier Raoult
scientific misconduct
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