Once more, a 'peer-reviewed' journal has to retract a bunch of papers because they are literally nonsense – generated by a computer algorithm. Why aren't publishers getting on top of this discreditable problem?
The MSM has finally cottoned on to the problem of academic fraud. It's great news that much bigger audiences are now being exposed to information about the scale and nature of the problems inside scientific institutions.
We hear a lot about misinformation being put about by non-scientists, but nothing about fraudulent papers published in scientific journals. Former Google software engineer Mike Hearn investigates for the Daily Sceptic.
