It's yet another reminder of why blindly 'trusting the science' may not always be the best go-to move in the future.
217 year old Wiley science publisher has reportedly "Peer reviewed" more than 11,000 papers that were determined to be fake without ever noticing.
The papers were referred to as "Naked gobbledygook sandwiches", Australian blogger Jo Nova wrote on her blog last week.
"Who knew, academic journals were a $30 billion dollar industry?" According to Nova's post, professional cheating services are employing AI to craft seemingly "Original" academic papers by shuffling around words.
We could say we hope no babies were hurt by fake papers but we know bad science already kills people.
What we need are not "Peer reviewed" papers but actual live face to face debate.
A researcher at University College London recently found more than 1 per cent of all scientific articles published last year, some 60,000 papers, were likely written by a computer.
Almost one out of every five computer science papers published in the past four years may not have been written by humans.
You can read Nova's full blog post here.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/trust-sciencethat-just-retracted-11000-peer-reviewed-papers
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