Along a row of bookshops just outside the main gate of the University of Tehran, touts openly advertise for firms that write scientific papers and theses.
PHOTO: FARHAD BABAEI
Science image and caption.
Posted on 09/23/2016 11:08:01 AM PDT by fishtank
In Iran, a shady market for papers flourishes
Richard Stone
Science 16 Sep 2016:
“Can you write me a thesis?” asks the woman, who has called a number from a flier taped to the main gate of Iran's prestigious University of Tehran. The woman, an actress, is posing as a botany graduate student from Islamic Azad University (IAU), Abadeh, in Fars province. Her topic is the flora of the Khuzestan region, she explains with a Fars accent to the salesman at the other end of the line. He obligingly lays out a schedule for delivery of thesis chapters. “If your subject doesn't need lab work,” he says, the cost will be a mere 1.8 million tomans ($600), plus another $400 if she desires a paper, published under her name in a reputable journal.
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Along a row of bookshops just outside the main gate of the University of Tehran, touts openly advertise for firms that write scientific papers and theses.
PHOTO: FARHAD BABAEI
Science image and caption.
Note to self: Don’t reference Iranian journal articles in my future work.
Two bits, four bits, six bits, a term paper.
We can bet this goes on at US colleges, particularly among
foreigners.
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