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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Organized science is now as corrupt as the private carting business. And the stakes are much higher.
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.
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.