Sunday, October 5, 2025

Fraud, AI slop and huge profits: is science publishing broken? – podcast; The Guardian, October 2, 2025

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"Scientists are warning that academic publishing needs urgent reform in order to retain trust in the research system. Ian Sample tells Madeleine Finlay what has gone so wrong, and Dr Mark Hanson of the University of Exeter proposes some potential solutions

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published

Is the staggeringly profitable business of scientific publishing bad for science?

This podcast was amended on 2 October 2025 to include information about how AI is being used to spot low quality papers."

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