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‘The situation has become appalling’: fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point. Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg (Feb 2024)
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Science’s fake-paper problem: high-profile effort will tackle paper mills. Poor-quality studies are polluting the literature — a group will study the businesses that produce them to stem the flow of bogus research. (Jan 2024, united2act.org)
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Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed? Investigations suggest that, in some fields, at least one-quarter of clinical trials might be problematic or even entirely made up, warn some researchers. They urge stronger scrutiny. (July 2023)
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