The hardest part of being a fake scientist is when the explanations you invent turn out to actually be true. It’s a problem Phil Edwards, the author of Tumblr-turned-textbook Fake Science, runs into ...

Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S. National Institutes of Health (Public Domain) Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S.

The rise of "fake" science poses a serious threat to the integrity of academic research, a new study warns. A widespread underground network of fraudsters is pumping out fake scientific results at an ...

The black market where fake science outpaces real research The most alarming shift is quantitative: the machinery of fraud is scaling faster than the machinery of discovery. Researchers who examined ...

The spread of health-related misinformation and fake science news is not a trivial matter. When it comes to health, lives can be at stake. Indeed, in a previous article, I discussed three ways that ...