New research reveals organized networks linking paper mills, intermediaries, and compromised academic journals ...

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 ...

Fake scientific studies are no longer a fringe nuisance. They are being produced and sold at such scale that, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Labbé receives funding from the European Research Council. He has also received funding from the French National Research Agency (ANR), and the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. Labbé has been in ...

AI trawling the internet’s vast repository of journal articles has reproduced an error that’s made its way into dozens of research papers—and now a team of ...

This is a response to the March 22, 2025 letter protesting the Environmental Protecton Agency's taking; “a huge step backward for climate action.” In my Nov. 30, 2024 letter, I stated that “Man-made ...

"For the last time, I am not the physicist Stephen Hawking. I'm Steve Hawking and I'm a business administrator in Ohio. I will not read your book." —Stephen Hawking, Says He's Not The Physicist, But ...

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the European Union cites "fake science" to block American food imports during an interview Sunday with CNN's Jake Tapper. JAKE TAPPER, CNN: So, just in point ...

A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic research, warning that the publication of fraudulent science is growing at a faster rate than ...