US lawmakers have warned that fake research papers risk compromising trust in the entire scientific system, as artificial intelligence (AI) makes it ever easier for so-called paper mills to fool journals into accepting made up articles. Some estimates suggest hundreds of thousands of fake papers could exist in the human genomics literature alone. Paper mills have also managed to impersonate guest journal editors to wave through hundreds of their own fraudulent articles.
We are entering a post-science era, where scientific fraud is so abundant that real science will be shunned and ignored by citizens and decision-makers.
The COVID-19 vaccines clinical trials are large scale examples of medical fraud, but this is not the only area where the problem exists.















