UK: The Guardian: "Fake scientific papers push research credibility to crisis point"

[Kitty]

Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg

Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every year, scientists have warned. Medical research is being compromised, drug development hindered and promising academic research jeopardised thanks to a global wave of sham science that is sweeping laboratories and universities.

https://www.theguardian.com/science...ers-push-research-credibility-to-crisis-point

 

[rvallee]

They don't even know half of it. They seem to be flagging academic mills in other countries but are overlooking the same, far more insidious, problem much closer to home.

And the two are closely linked together. The degradation of academic that allows BS like the biopsychosocial ideology and most of so-called evidence-based medicine to thrive despite not being worth a damn is the same problem as the academic mills, just in a different form. It's a problem of validity at its core.