I’m getting the weirdest scam; someone wants to include me in a documentary?

[Kent_Clark]

Try writing an academic paper about something.

The ongoing firehose of fake research papers

I think we’ve all probably been aware of the ease of publishing, the profitability of publishing, and the pressure to publish all coming together to create fakery. I just don’t think I fully realized the scale of it. Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research It is exceedingly difficult to get a handle on exactly how big the problem is. Around 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date…