A EurekAlert from AAAS

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Science and medicine have a 'publication pollution' problem

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"The pollution of science and medicine by plagiarism, fraud, and predatory publishing is corroding the reliability of research," writes Dr. Caplan. "Yet neither the leadership nor those who rely on the truth of science and medicine are sounding the alarm loudly or moving to fix the problem with appropriate energy."

see:

Medicine Pollution Problem