“Junk science has been forcing a reckoning among scientific and medical researchers for the past year, leading to thousands of retracted papers.

Last week, scientific publisher Wiley decided to shutter 19 scientific journals after retracting 11,300 sham papers. There is a large-scale industry of so-called “paper mills” that sell fictive research, sometimes written by artificial intelligence, to researchers who then publish it in peer-reviewed journals — which are sometimes edited by people who had been placed by those sham groups.”

Why Scientific Fraud Is Suddenly Everywhere

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