A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

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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 ...

“My Administration is committed to restoring a gold standard for science to ensure that federally funded research is transparent, rigorous, and impactful, and that Federal decisions are informed by ...

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are sounding the alarm over what they say is a growing threat from China-linked "paper mills" that may be injecting fake scientific research into U.S. government-funded ...

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The natural world rarely behaves the way we expect. Physics bends intuition. Biology ignores neat categories. Space refuses to be reasonable. Some facts sound like they were invented for a science ...

Scientific fraud is becoming a larger issue. Thousands of fake scientific papers have flooded journals and have subsequently had to be retracted. Much of this is the work of paper mills, which submit ...