#sciencefraud — Public Fediverse posts

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

"For more than a century, scientific journals have been the pipes through which knowledge of the natural world flows into our culture. Now they’re being clogged with AI slop."

- Ross Andersen at The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/01/ai-slop-science-publishing/685704/

#TheAtlanticMagazine #RossAndersen #AIslop #AIethics #AIresearch #SciComm #JournalPublishing #JournalEditing #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #ScienceEditing #ScientificMisconduct #ScienceFraud #AIinAcademia #AcademiaIA

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/springer-nature-flags-paper-with-fabricated-reference-to-article-not-written-by-our-cofounder/

This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.

#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/springer-nature-flags-paper-with-fabricated-reference-to-article-not-written-by-our-cofounder/

This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.

#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/springer-nature-flags-paper-with-fabricated-reference-to-article-not-written-by-our-cofounder/

This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.

#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/21/springer-nature-flags-paper-with-fabricated-reference-to-article-not-written-by-our-cofounder/

This is very meta... essentially someone who is in the business of writing fake papers has written a fake paper criticizing Pubpeer and post publication peer review as being vulnerable to “misuse” and “hyper-skepticism.

#RetractionWatch #AcademicIntegrity #ResearchMisconduct #ScholarlyPublishing #PostPublicationReview #PubPeer #FakeScience #MetaScience #PeerReview #ScienceFraud

Retraction Watch: Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says. “Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measures and will only keep accelerating, according to a study of problematic publishing practices and the networks that fuel them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/retraction-watch-fighting-coordinated-publication-fraud-is-like-emptying-an-overflowing-bathtub-with-a-spoon-study-coauthor-says/

Retraction Watch: Fighting coordinated publication fraud is like ‘emptying an overflowing bathtub with a spoon,’ study coauthor says. “Systematic research fraud has outpaced corrective measures and will only keep accelerating, according to a study of problematic publishing practices and the networks that fuel them.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/10/retraction-watch-fighting-coordinated-publication-fraud-is-like-emptying-an-overflowing-bathtub-with-a-spoon-study-coauthor-says/

Rafael Luque in the news again... https://cen.acs.org/people/Russia-honors-chemist-suspended-Spain/103/web/2025/05

No mention of Elsevier's role in his prodigious output 🤷‍♂️

#Elsevier #ScienceFraud #Russia

Over 2 months, 3 authors from 🇮🇳 university published 69 comments in one journal - most likely AI-generated and irrelevant. These #commentaries flood the literature with low-quality content, boosting metrics for institutions while undermining academic integrity:

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.zwgcbvl

Are we witnessing the decline of meaningful academic discourse in favour of metric games?

#AcademicIntegrity #ScienceFraud #ScholarlyPublishing #ResearchEthics

🗓️ Tomorrow at 14:00 (#Kyiv time), join my open Zoom lecture in Ukrainian: "Academic Journal Fraud: What a Modern Scientist Needs to Know." We’ll explore predatory journals, hijacked journals, and more—crucial knowledge for early-career researchers aiming to safeguard their work! 🕵️‍♂️

📌 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/2xk85vxz
:goose_hacker: Presentation: http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19042.95682

#AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics #ScienceFraud #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #PredatoryJournals

"Over the last few years, the number of Indian researchers finding a mention on the Retraction Watch has seen a sharp spike. And many of these scientists in the global “wall of shame” are associated with prestigious government institutes.
India is now wrestling with a research fraud “crisis.”" https://theprint.in/ground-reports/indias-research-crime-is-getting-worse-scientists-are-gaming-peer-review-system/2261884/

#PublicationEthics #Retractions #RetractionWatch #IndianResearch #IndianScience #ScienceFraud

"Over the last few years, the number of Indian researchers finding a mention on the Retraction Watch has seen a sharp spike. And many of these scientists in the global “wall of shame” are associated with prestigious government institutes.
India is now wrestling with a research fraud “crisis.”" https://theprint.in/ground-reports/indias-research-crime-is-getting-worse-scientists-are-gaming-peer-review-system/2261884/

#PublicationEthics #Retractions #RetractionWatch #IndianResearch #IndianScience #ScienceFraud

"Over the last few years, the number of Indian researchers finding a mention on the Retraction Watch has seen a sharp spike. And many of these scientists in the global “wall of shame” are associated with prestigious government institutes.
India is now wrestling with a research fraud “crisis.”" https://theprint.in/ground-reports/indias-research-crime-is-getting-worse-scientists-are-gaming-peer-review-system/2261884/

#PublicationEthics #Retractions #RetractionWatch #IndianResearch #IndianScience #ScienceFraud

"Over the last few years, the number of Indian researchers finding a mention on the Retraction Watch has seen a sharp spike. And many of these scientists in the global “wall of shame” are associated with prestigious government institutes.
India is now wrestling with a research fraud “crisis.”" https://theprint.in/ground-reports/indias-research-crime-is-getting-worse-scientists-are-gaming-peer-review-system/2261884/

#PublicationEthics #Retractions #RetractionWatch #IndianResearch #IndianScience #ScienceFraud

"Over the last few years, the number of Indian researchers finding a mention on the Retraction Watch has seen a sharp spike. And many of these scientists in the global “wall of shame” are associated with prestigious government institutes.
India is now wrestling with a research fraud “crisis.”" https://theprint.in/ground-reports/indias-research-crime-is-getting-worse-scientists-are-gaming-peer-review-system/2261884/

#PublicationEthics #Retractions #RetractionWatch #IndianResearch #IndianScience #ScienceFraud

@timnitGebru

"some witnesses to an alleged incident of fraud during Tessier-Lavigne’s time at the biotechnology company Genentech refused to cooperate because investigators would not guarantee them anonymity,"

A interesting approach by #MarkFilip.

Did that approach allow the following conclusion?

"There was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated data in the papers reviewed, the report concluded ... "

#ScienceFraud #ScienceProcess #ManipulationOfData #STS #HPS

@timnitGebru

"some witnesses to an alleged incident of fraud during Tessier-Lavigne’s time at the biotechnology company Genentech refused to cooperate because investigators would not guarantee them anonymity,"

A interesting approach by #MarkFilip.

Did that approach allow the following conclusion?

"There was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated data in the papers reviewed, the report concluded ... "

#ScienceFraud #ScienceProcess #ManipulationOfData #STS #HPS

@timnitGebru

"some witnesses to an alleged incident of fraud during Tessier-Lavigne’s time at the biotechnology company Genentech refused to cooperate because investigators would not guarantee them anonymity,"

A interesting approach by #MarkFilip.

Did that approach allow the following conclusion?

"There was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated data in the papers reviewed, the report concluded ... "

#ScienceFraud #ScienceProcess #ManipulationOfData #STS #HPS

@timnitGebru

"some witnesses to an alleged incident of fraud during Tessier-Lavigne’s time at the biotechnology company Genentech refused to cooperate because investigators would not guarantee them anonymity,"

A interesting approach by #MarkFilip.

Did that approach allow the following conclusion?

"There was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated data in the papers reviewed, the report concluded ... "

#ScienceFraud #ScienceProcess #ManipulationOfData #STS #HPS

@timnitGebru

"some witnesses to an alleged incident of fraud during Tessier-Lavigne’s time at the biotechnology company Genentech refused to cooperate because investigators would not guarantee them anonymity,"

A interesting approach by #MarkFilip.

Did that approach allow the following conclusion?

"There was no evidence that Tessier-Lavigne himself manipulated data in the papers reviewed, the report concluded ... "

#ScienceFraud #ScienceProcess #ManipulationOfData #STS #HPS

There is a worrying amount of fraud in medical research from @theeconomist https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/02/22/there-is-a-worrying-amount-of-fraud-in-medical-research #sciencefraud

"There is already a rapidly accelerating race taking place between paper mills using ever more complex AI to produce fake papers at scale and publishers employing ever more sophisticated AI technology to detect issues."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/15/ai-paper-mills-and-image-generation-require-a-co-ordinated-response-from-academic-publishers/

#PaperMills #AcademicPublishing #ScienceFraud #F1000Research #TaylorAndFrancis #AI #AIinScience #ImpactOfSocialSciences #SabinaAlam #RebeccaLawrence #FakeScience #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AIArmsRace #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing

"There is already a rapidly accelerating race taking place between paper mills using ever more complex AI to produce fake papers at scale and publishers employing ever more sophisticated AI technology to detect issues."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/15/ai-paper-mills-and-image-generation-require-a-co-ordinated-response-from-academic-publishers/

#PaperMills #AcademicPublishing #ScienceFraud #F1000Research #TaylorAndFrancis #AI #AIinScience #ImpactOfSocialSciences #SabinaAlam #RebeccaLawrence #FakeScience #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AIArmsRace #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing

"There is already a rapidly accelerating race taking place between paper mills using ever more complex AI to produce fake papers at scale and publishers employing ever more sophisticated AI technology to detect issues."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/15/ai-paper-mills-and-image-generation-require-a-co-ordinated-response-from-academic-publishers/

#PaperMills #AcademicPublishing #ScienceFraud #F1000Research #TaylorAndFrancis #AI #AIinScience #ImpactOfSocialSciences #SabinaAlam #RebeccaLawrence #FakeScience #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AIArmsRace #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing

"There is already a rapidly accelerating race taking place between paper mills using ever more complex AI to produce fake papers at scale and publishers employing ever more sophisticated AI technology to detect issues."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/15/ai-paper-mills-and-image-generation-require-a-co-ordinated-response-from-academic-publishers/

#PaperMills #AcademicPublishing #ScienceFraud #F1000Research #TaylorAndFrancis #AI #AIinScience #ImpactOfSocialSciences #SabinaAlam #RebeccaLawrence #FakeScience #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AIArmsRace #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing

"There is already a rapidly accelerating race taking place between paper mills using ever more complex AI to produce fake papers at scale and publishers employing ever more sophisticated AI technology to detect issues."

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/15/ai-paper-mills-and-image-generation-require-a-co-ordinated-response-from-academic-publishers/

#PaperMills #AcademicPublishing #ScienceFraud #F1000Research #TaylorAndFrancis #AI #AIinScience #ImpactOfSocialSciences #SabinaAlam #RebeccaLawrence #FakeScience #PublicationEthics #ResearchIntegrity #AIArmsRace #SciencePublishing #JournalPublishing

Hello.
I’m a recently retired Professor of Developmental Neuropsychology at University of Oxford, UK, with interests in developmental language disorders (#DevLangDis) and #laterality. On my blog I write about academic life, mostly letting off steam about things that irritate me, such academic evaluation. I’m very keen on #OpenScience & improving #Reproducibility & #Replicability of research.
I’m now focusing more on #ScienceFraud, with a current interest in academic papermills.