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

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**Created:** [April 16, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-getting-the-weirdest-scam-someone-wants-to-include-me-in-a-documentary/1017089 "2025-04-16T00:24:47Z")
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### Author: ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [April 16, 2025, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-m-getting-the-weirdest-scam-someone-wants-to-include-me-in-a-documentary/1017089/19 "2025-04-16T22:17:51Z")

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Try writing an academic paper about something.

> [@The ongoing firehose of fake research papers](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-ongoing-firehose-of-fake-research-papers/1013579):
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> 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](https://theconversation.com/fake-papers-are-contaminating-the-worlds-scientific-literature-fueling-a-corrupt-industry-and-slowing-legitimate-lifesaving-medical-research-246224) 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 Around 55,000 scholarly papers have been retracted to date…

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