Scientific fraud is becoming a larger issue. Thousands of fake scientific papers have flooded journals and have subsequently had to be retracted. Much of this is the work of paper mills, which submit ...

Have you ever taken a personality test seriously? Or maybe you’ve wondered if you could freeze yourself in liquid nitrogen to help revitalize your body postmortem? Human tendencies to believe in such ...

The black market where fake science outpaces real research The most alarming shift is quantitative: the machinery of fraud is scaling faster than the machinery of discovery. Researchers who examined ...

Kim Eggleton, head of peer review and research integrity at IOP publishing: “Generative AI has just handed [fraudsters] a winning lottery ticket. They can do it really cheap, at scale, and the ...

Over the past decade, furtive commercial entities around the world have industrialized the production, sale and dissemination of bogus scholarly research, undermining the literature that everyone from ...

The spread of health-related misinformation and fake science news is not a trivial matter. When it comes to health, lives can be at stake. Indeed, in a previous article, I discussed three ways that ...

An AI-generated image of a rat with a towering phallic appendage went semi-viral last month. The nonsense diagram appeared in a now-retracted scientific paper, published in a Frontiers journal. This ...