Closing the paper mines

Scientific fakery is a centuries old problem. Twinned with the long history of hard-working scientists earning fame for genuine discoveries, runs a tawdry history of those who were willing fabricate results to falsely gain prestige. Fraud in the past relied on bespoke fakery, but today's fraudsters can exploit the online scientific world to quickly create realistic looking papers on an industrial scale. Fraudsters are using open data sets to create meaningless analyses and combining these results with text from large language models. There has been an explosion of these low value papers using openly available and highly regarded data sets, such as the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey…

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