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In 2005, Carolina physicist Jianping Lu noticed that his 5-year-old son was having trouble breathing. He took him to a local doctor, who ordered a CT scan to see what might be happening inside the boy’s lungs. The resulting picture wasn’t clear enough for the doctor to give them a diagnosis, and because they’d discussed a potential — and risky — surgery to fix the problem, Lu got a second opinion. “The second CT scan was slightly better,” he remembers. “The doctor said maybe we should wait a couple years, and he may grow out of it.” Luckily, that’s exactly what happened, a...

By Katrina Krämer2021-05-25T08:54:00+01:00 ‘As with many hidden criminal syndicates, you don’t always know what’s happening,’ says Retraction Watch’s Ivan Oransky about paper mills. They are the biggest organised fraud perpetrated on scientific journals ever, eroding scientists’ trust in the publishing system – and in each other. While plagiarism and fraud isn’t new – individual researchers have been caught photoshopping electron microscopy images or inventing elemental analysis data – paper mills serve up professional fakery for their customers on an industrial scale. Bu...