The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research
Original article:
The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS https://share.google/xx3spIj8mRQxrSo4S
I haven’t read the Wired piece but can recommend this blog post from the first author of the PNAS article:
My $0.02 (not subject to tariffs, I hope) is that this is a very serious problem with multiple causes (the most important, in my view, the grotesque warping of incentives that drive demand) but that the author misidentifies the actual do-or-die moment for science.
I get the impression that, as bad as the situation is, that science is not about to be overwhelmed with crap. The reason is that much of the fake science is concentrated in fake journals, and is not randomly scattered about in respectable journals. For example the insane requirement in China for medical doctors to publish research articles, or lose their jobs, has led to a whole ecosystem of fake journals filled with fake papers, and everyone knows this, I suppose AI might be fooled, but people aren’t.
Or am I out of date, or just wrong?
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