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Posted on 08/30/2025 6:09:30 AM PDT by cuz1961
Rise of ‘paper mills’: 32,700 fake scientific papers published in real journals, study finds
Before buying into the latest study splashed across the headlines, better check the source.
In an increasingly troubling academic trend, companies dubbed “paper mills” are selling fake studies to researchers who need publications to keep their jobs or careers moving.
These fake scientific papers are being published in real journals at an alarming rate, according to a study published this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The number of fake papers doubled every 1.5 years between 2016 and 2020, and there are now tens of thousands in the scientific record, the research found.
The trend exploits vulnerabilities in the publication process, and major publishers like Wiley and Taylor & Francis have had to retract hundreds or thousands of papers at once and have even shut down some journals overrun by paper mills, The Wall Street Journal reported...
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Researchers built a database of over 32,700 suspected fake papers linked to paper mills, and that’s just what has been identified so far — the study’s authors warned it’s likely an undercount, the Journal reported..... /
So much for the boards big pharma vax shills long winded defensive
" reasonable conversation"
about science.
Spit.
Hindawi. Among others.
When I was in college, I worked for a genuine NASA scientist. He was the top moneymaker for the college of engineering. Instead of pursuing grants, the world came to him. At lunch over a few pictures of beer (Yes, a bunch of alcoholics) he told us his technique. He’d ask what they were trying to prove. (Usually, some stupid free energy thing or something about the environment.) Then the final report, sometimes published would seem to back up whatever the payer was trying to prove. But if you dug into the data you’d wonder how they got that conclusion. Then you’d go back to the conclusion and realize it didn’t really say what it seemed to say.
The doctor and the students saw these jobs/papers as just a means of living large off “The System.” Their dedication to science or “truth” was minimal and limited to covering their butts with carefully parsed words. Most of the “work” was done in the last two weeks before it was due and already 95% of the money was spent living expenses and parties.
I think we need a better descriptive title than “papermills.“ Something more like “Fraud Mills”. People who submitted these to a journal need to be fired and prosecuted. Same for the people who aided and abetted in this Fraud.
https://www.elsewhere.org/journal/pomo/
Pre-AI Postmodern thesis generator.
Reload page for new bulldada.
Now, with AI, they can not only generate a fake paper, but a dozen more fake, but published, papers for it to cite.
That is exactly what I heard about NASA Ames operation in Mountain View, CA from others who worked there.
The truth is Rocketdyne and many other private companies got us to the moon. NASA just took credit for their hard work.
Some here have cited such ‘paper mills’ as evidence needed to counter BEFORE taking action against the plandemic bureaucracy et al.
Pshaw.
Righteous action does not require proof, merely justification. LEADERSHIP (which is sorely lacking).
The longer this admin waits to take action beyond ‘4 things’ the more normalized it becomes, the higher likelihood they will get away with it and guarandamnteed that it will happen again.
Way back in 1983 I was working with a colleague on a rather complicted process simulation using Chemshare (I think it was called). We had to dig deep through the library to find what few articles there were on the subject. We finally found one from the USSR - the old Soviet Union.
We called up Chemshare support and bounced off a few ways to simulate it. We mentioned the paper we found that discussed this subject. The Chemshare rep told told us to throw it away. Anything from the USSR was suspect. The Communists were trying to convince the world they were diligently working on research and it was all garbage.
And here we are doing it, too. What have we become?
I see a lot of “real” studies where a series of papers will just be a variation on the first one. For example, studies on the effect of some process on the germination of some kind of seed. Each paper will study a different seed and the conclusion will be comparison photos of germinated seeds with and without the process exposure.
There’s nothing fake but there’s almost no effort required to turn out a pile of papers.
Self-governed and regulated. What could go wrong?
Fake scientific papers are being published in real journals.
Lobbyists get paid to pimp agendas and have cash to ensure it happens.
Note D.C.
They are peer reviewed by other fraudsters.
What could possibly go wrong?
Walk off the end of the pier review…..
The kick is, College students used Paper Mills for years to submit cheat rolls to get better grades.
The Profs bitched and moaned and regularly denied them as Cheaters.
Now there is even more proof the phony Profs have been doing the same thing.l, but for money instead of grades.
JPeterson described this years ago, in his Psych field. You can tell a fake/worthless paper by looking into how many times that work is then used in a subsequent paper. Remember, science is built. One discovery then leads to others. But, if the first “discovery” is crappola no one is gonna bother using it as a reference since that is tantamount to plagiarism. You will get caught when the 1st one crashes and burns.
He looked into tens of thousands of papers and none were used elsewhere. Nada. Practically no paper/thesis in recent years in his field is used anywhere else. They are just printed out and .......... abandoned.
As an illustration and for the fun of Freepers, I recommend a search engine romp through the fake paper, "The conceptual penis as a social construct."
"Respected: journals reprinted the BS, then got VERY angry at being found out as mindless publishers of hoaxes, complete with "peer-reviews" and with pursuit of the "perpetrators" of the hoax. ( It and others. )
Google "The conceptual penis as a social construct."
Take special note of the Lefty media complaining. Again and again. Only years later, the hoaxes and fakes are piling up, and with the advent of LLMs, more will flood the "information space." With bullshit.
It was medical research, and most of the studies we did determined that whatever experimental drug didn't do like we hoped, though a few drugs did improve things. Sometimes there was either greater benefit or equal effect from lowering medication. (i.e. After certain kinds of strokes when your BP is lowered, it's now known to not fight the BP a lot to do intensive BP control; moderate BP control is just as good at reducing future strokes -- of certain types of strokes.) Every paper that they wrote was exactly like we saw in the data, at least the ones I was the lead programmer on (and had read writes to all of the data so I could make sure it was all coming in successfully from all of the fat clients running in all the clinics that participated in the studies).
Unfortunately, my guys weren't the norm.
“”””They are peer reviewed by other fraudsters.
What could possibly go wrong?””””
When somebody wants to show proof of say, global warming, they say their paper was legit because it was peer reviewed.
It fools a lot of people.
Organized science is now as corrupt as the private carting business. And the stakes are much higher.
That’s what I see, but with polymers.
I’ve been working with variations of a certain polymer for 25 years and many publications reiterate in painful detail its characteristics that have been known for 50 years.
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