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...
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
Speaking of Communists, this is probably the most famous case of academic fraud
Elena Ceausescu
https://paperpile.com/blog/elena-ceausescu-scientist-fraud/
Yup. Frauds helping frauds.
Diploma mills. Many of those papers are nothing but crap from PhD students.
IRB are supposed to stop it, but they contribute to it since none of them will ever stop the money train from PhD students.
Yup, definitely a pattern.
Gee, what are the chances that the medical journals our doctors rely on are mostly crappola from AI/Big Pharma?
Happens with some cancer drugs, too.
I was diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer 11 years ago. After 3 years, Lupron was beginning to not work. My oncologist and I started discussing the use of Provenge. I started to doing some research and discovered that the FDA gave it and expedited approval.
What I read was that the study indicated that average survival was extended from 46 to 54 months. Asked my oncologist how it worked and did it lower PSA. He said the oncologists at MD Anderson were not big fans of Provenge because the drug company couldn’t really explain how it worked.
I suggested that maybe the pharmaceutical company cooked the books. He didn’t disagree. My oncologist at MD Anderson is awesome.
I have responded so well to low level treatment, my oncologist has told me on several occasions that I will likely need any other treatment and will die of old age.
#3 sounds like when the FED chairman speaks. No one really knows what he said so they interpret it to mean what they want it to mean.
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