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Paper Chase: A Global Industry Fuels Scientific Fraud in the U.S.
Real Clear Politics ^ | October 08, 2025 | Vince Bielski

Posted on 10/08/2025 11:11:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

In southern India, a new enterprise called Peer Publicon Consultancy offers a full suite of services to scientific researchers. It will not only write a scholarly paper for a fee but also guarantee publishing the fraudulent work in a respected journal.   

It is one of many “paper mills” that have emerged across Asia and Eastern Europe over the last two decades. Paper mills are having remarkable success peddling tens of thousands of bogus academic journal papers and authorships to university and medical researchers seeking to pad their resumes in highly competitive fields. 

These sophisticated outfits also engage in trickery to get papers published, infiltrating journals with their own editors and reviewers and even resorting to bribery, according to investigators and a white paper from Wiley, a New Jersey-based publisher. The scale of the fraud is eye-popping: One Wiley subsidiary, Hindawi, retracted more than 8,000 articles two years ago for suspected paper mill involvement. 

U.S. universities and regulators have been able to brush off the threat of paper mills because they have mostly sold their services in China, where research integrity standards are rarely enforced, according to experts. But these rogue operators are building on their success in Asia and expanding to the U.S. and Western Europe, where the prize is the prestige of naming an author on an article from a famous university. 

“Paper mills have become a huge business,” said Jennifer Byrne, professor of molecular oncology at the University of Sydney, who studies the enterprises. “If some journals are pushing back on papers from China, and they probably are, it makes sense that paper mills will try to diversify their clientele and start working with people in different countries.” 

 As paper mills expand from the fringe to the center of research, placing professional-looking articles in...

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1 posted on 10/08/2025 11:11:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

AI makes up Scientific Papers out of thin air with Zero research


2 posted on 10/08/2025 11:14:22 AM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Elena Ceausescu: Greatest Scientist Ever — except she was a fraud

https://paperpile.com/blog/elena-ceausescu-scientist-fraud/


3 posted on 10/08/2025 11:17:17 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Here is the famous paper the renown researcher John Ioannidis wrote on this topic:

Why Most Published Research Findings Are False
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1182327/


4 posted on 10/08/2025 11:21:46 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

FauciMengeleGates should fit right in..


5 posted on 10/08/2025 11:44:45 AM PDT by A strike (Why is the UnitedStates at war with Russia? fmi6)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
From https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32259057/

Abstract

Translational science is defined as the field of investigation focused on understanding the scientific and operational principles underlying each step of the translational process. Further development of the field is advanced by describing the key desirable characteristics of individuals who seek to uncover these principles to increase the efficiency and efficacy of translation. The members of Translation Together, a newly launched international collaborative effort to advance translational innovation, present here a consensus representation of the fundamental characteristics of a translational scientist. We invite all stakeholders to contribute in the ongoing efforts to develop the field and educate the next generation of translational scientists.

Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society.

It's called Translational Science. It just depends on how a scientist looks at it. Or explains it. Few would believe who pushed/pulled it into acceptance.

6 posted on 10/08/2025 12:04:07 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you)
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To: A strike

A strike wrote: “FauciMengeleGates should fit right in..

You do realizw that most anti-vaxxer propaganda studies fit right in.


7 posted on 10/08/2025 12:15:04 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

I realize that YOU fit right in.


8 posted on 10/08/2025 12:25:57 PM PDT by A strike (Why is the UnitedStates at war with Russia? fmi6)
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To: DugwayDuke

Your government kool-aid running low ?


9 posted on 10/08/2025 12:33:53 PM PDT by A strike (Why is the UnitedStates at war with Russia? fmi6)
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To: A strike

A strike wrote: “Your government kool-aid running low ?”

What’s your favorite flavor of anti-vaxxer kool-aid?


10 posted on 10/08/2025 12:49:58 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
'The Paper Chase' (1973)

...Lindsay Wagner before she was bionic.



On a related note, John Houseman won an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.



11 posted on 10/08/2025 1:10:06 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: DugwayDuke

“What’s your favorite flavor...”

Truth

You wouldn’t know about it.


12 posted on 10/08/2025 1:22:15 PM PDT by A strike (Why is the UnitedStates at war with Russia? fmi6)
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To: A strike

A strike wrote: “Truth You wouldn’t know about it.”

Neither will you as long as your cling to the anti-vaxxine narrative.


13 posted on 10/08/2025 2:03:20 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: DugwayDuke

Why so proud to be so stupid ?

this is a very old question about you..


14 posted on 10/08/2025 4:36:04 PM PDT by A strike (Why is the UnitedStates at war with Russia? fmi6)
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