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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly - #science #research #ScientificFraud
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly - #science #research #ScientificFraud
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly - #science #research #ScientificFraud
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly - #science #research #ScientificFraud
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly - #science #research #ScientificFraud
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient and growing
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
#HackerNews #scientificfraud #resilience #research #misconduct #integrity
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient and growing
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
#HackerNews #scientificfraud #resilience #research #misconduct #integrity
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient and growing
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
#HackerNews #scientificfraud #resilience #research #misconduct #integrity
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient and growing
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
#HackerNews #scientificfraud #resilience #research #misconduct #integrity
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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient and growing
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122
#HackerNews #scientificfraud #resilience #research #misconduct #integrity
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And the PNAS paper itself
#Science #Publishing #Scicomm #ScientificFraud
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“fraudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in science begins to erode”
#Science #Scicomm #ScientificFraud
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260306224235.htm -
“fraudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in science begins to erode”
#Science #Scicomm #ScientificFraud
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“fraudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in science begins to erode”
#Science #Scicomm #ScientificFraud
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“fraudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in science begins to erode”
#Science #Scicomm #ScientificFraud
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/260306224235.htm -
“fraudulent studies are now appearing at a faster rate than legitimate scientific publications. The authors say the findings should serve as a warning to the scientific community to strengthen safeguards before public trust in science begins to erode”
#Science #Scicomm #ScientificFraud
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Chemist has 35 papers retracted within 2 years
A chemistry researcher has had 35 of his papers retracted within 24 months for a variety of…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #ethics #GB #publishing #researchintegrity #scientificfraud #UK #UnitedKingdom
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/811041/ Chemist has 35 papers retracted within 2 years #ethics #publishing #ResearchIntegrity #Science #ScientificFraud #UK #UnitedKingdom
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/115725799575506491
From now on, my procedure to check papers that are suspicious of being made with AI includes using the search function of my PDF reader and trying to find “**”, and maybe also “__”.
There might be some false positives in papers about programming languages.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/115725799575506491
From now on, my procedure to check papers that are suspicious of being made with AI includes using the search function of my PDF reader and trying to find “**”, and maybe also “__”.
There might be some false positives in papers about programming languages.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/115725799575506491
From now on, my procedure to check papers that are suspicious of being made with AI includes using the search function of my PDF reader and trying to find “**”, and maybe also “__”.
There might be some false positives in papers about programming languages.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/115725799575506491
From now on, my procedure to check papers that are suspicious of being made with AI includes using the search function of my PDF reader and trying to find “**”, and maybe also “__”.
There might be some false positives in papers about programming languages.
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/115725799575506491
From now on, my procedure to check papers that are suspicious of being made with AI includes using the search function of my PDF reader and trying to find “**”, and maybe also “__”.
There might be some false positives in papers about programming languages.
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"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
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"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
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"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
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"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
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"Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some concern that these pressures may compel some to defect from the scientific research ethos—i.e., fail to make genuine contributions to the production of knowledge or to the training of an expert workforce—the focus has largely been on the actions of lone individuals. Recently, however, reports of coordinated scientific fraud activities have increased. Some suggest that the ease of communication provided by the internet and open-access publishing have created the conditions for the emergence of entities—paper mills (i.e., sellers of mass-produced low quality and fabricated research), brokers (i.e., conduits between producers and publishers of fraudulent research), predatory journals, who do not conduct any quality controls on submissions—that facilitate systematic scientific fraud. Here, we demonstrate through case studies that i) individuals have cooperated to publish papers that were eventually retracted in a number of journals, ii) brokers have enabled publication in targeted journals at scale, and iii), within a field of science, not all subfields are equally targeted for scientific fraud. Our results reveal some of the strategies that enable the entities promoting scientific fraud to evade interventions. Our final analysis suggests that this ability to evade interventions is enabling the number of fraudulent publications to grow at a rate far outpacing that of legitimate science."
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> Docampo, Abalkina, and others say there’s little in the new paper that wasn’t already strongly suspected. But the dramatic confirmation that the study offers may shift the needle, they say. “We’re massively behind the curve on making visible and realizing the extent of the problem,” Kaltenbrunner says. “The sheer scale of it is the takeaway message here.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds
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> Docampo, Abalkina, and others say there’s little in the new paper that wasn’t already strongly suspected. But the dramatic confirmation that the study offers may shift the needle, they say. “We’re massively behind the curve on making visible and realizing the extent of the problem,” Kaltenbrunner says. “The sheer scale of it is the takeaway message here.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds
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> Docampo, Abalkina, and others say there’s little in the new paper that wasn’t already strongly suspected. But the dramatic confirmation that the study offers may shift the needle, they say. “We’re massively behind the curve on making visible and realizing the extent of the problem,” Kaltenbrunner says. “The sheer scale of it is the takeaway message here.”
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientific-fraud-has-become-industry-alarming-analysis-finds
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #HackadayColumns #scientificfraud #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #Zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #JamesWebb #citation #PaloAlto #Slider #K2-18b #Kepler #tooth #DMDS #gear #jwst #Musk #DMS
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #HackadayColumns #scientificfraud #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #Zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #JamesWebb #citation #PaloAlto #Slider #K2-18b #Kepler #tooth #DMDS #gear #jwst #Musk #DMS
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #HackadayColumns #scientificfraud #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #Zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #JamesWebb #citation #PaloAlto #Slider #K2-18b #Kepler #tooth #DMDS #gear #jwst #Musk #DMS
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #HackadayColumns #scientificfraud #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #Zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #JamesWebb #citation #PaloAlto #Slider #K2-18b #Kepler #tooth #DMDS #gear #jwst #Musk #DMS
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms
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Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms
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The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.
Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&v=Q9tgyVPytBk
#ResearchIntegrity #FrancescaGino #ScientificFraud #HarvardUniversity #Plagiarism #DataColada
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The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.
Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&v=Q9tgyVPytBk
#ResearchIntegrity #FrancescaGino #ScientificFraud #HarvardUniversity #Plagiarism #DataColada
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The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.
Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&v=Q9tgyVPytBk
#ResearchIntegrity #FrancescaGino #ScientificFraud #HarvardUniversity #Plagiarism #DataColada
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The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.
Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&v=Q9tgyVPytBk
#ResearchIntegrity #FrancescaGino #ScientificFraud #HarvardUniversity #Plagiarism #DataColada
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The Francesca Gino case ended with her being found guilty of data manipulation, exposed as a serial plagiarist, and losing her defamation suit against the Data Colada bloggers.
Here's a very watchable 15-minute summary by Pete Judo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=DW5gVlr364Nzb4ta&v=Q9tgyVPytBk
#ResearchIntegrity #FrancescaGino #ScientificFraud #HarvardUniversity #Plagiarism #DataColada
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#AI #GenerativeAI #ScientificFraud #ChatGPT #ChatBots #AcademicPublishing: "We searched and scraped Google Scholar using the Python library Scholarly (Cholewiak et al., 2023) for papers that included specific phrases known to be common responses from ChatGPT and similar applications with the same underlying model (GPT3.5 or GPT4): “as of my last knowledge update” and/or “I don’t have access to real-time data” (see Appendix A). This facilitated the identification of papers that likely used generative AI to produce text, resulting in 227 retrieved papers. The papers’ bibliographic information was automatically added to a spreadsheet and downloaded into Zotero.
We employed multiple coding (Barbour, 2001) to classify the papers based on their content. First, we jointly assessed whether the paper was suspected of fraudulent use of ChatGPT (or similar) based on how the text was integrated into the papers and whether the paper was presented as original research output or the AI tool’s role was acknowledged. Second, in analyzing the content of the papers, we continued the multiple coding by classifying the fraudulent papers into four categories identified during an initial round of analysis—health, environment, computing, and others—and then determining which subjects were most affected by this issue (see Table 1). Out of the 227 retrieved papers, 88 papers were written with legitimate and/or declared use of GPTs (i.e., false positives, which were excluded from further analysis), and 139 papers were written with undeclared and/or fraudulent use (i.e., true positives, which were included in further analysis). The multiple coding was conducted jointly by all authors of the present article, who collaboratively coded and cross-checked each other’s interpretation of the data simultaneously in a shared spreadsheet file."