Oct 2, 2025 09:04 PM
SABINE HOSSENFELDER
https://youtu.be/fBH0s1ZUYLY
VIDEO EXCERPT: . . . Now let’s talk about the spread of papermills and other unethical publication practices. Papermills are networks of brokers that sell authorships on scientific scam papers, or citations. These scam papers are increasingly written by AI.
This problem first emerged in China and India, but in the past years it’s been moving west. Just a few weeks ago, a particular large European papermill network was busted which
operated out of Ukraine. It had reportedly sold more than 1500 papers from 2017 to 2025, involving more than 4500 authors.
This comes just a few months after a former student of the university of Manchester was found running a papermill and two Hungarian postdocs were found to have published with a papermill, though they claim it was an accident. Another stunning incident happened in Poland...
https://youtu.be/fBH0s1ZUYLY
https://youtu.be/fBH0s1ZUYLY
VIDEO EXCERPT: . . . Now let’s talk about the spread of papermills and other unethical publication practices. Papermills are networks of brokers that sell authorships on scientific scam papers, or citations. These scam papers are increasingly written by AI.
This problem first emerged in China and India, but in the past years it’s been moving west. Just a few weeks ago, a particular large European papermill network was busted which
operated out of Ukraine. It had reportedly sold more than 1500 papers from 2017 to 2025, involving more than 4500 authors.
This comes just a few months after a former student of the university of Manchester was found running a papermill and two Hungarian postdocs were found to have published with a papermill, though they claim it was an accident. Another stunning incident happened in Poland...
https://youtu.be/fBH0s1ZUYLY