A Swedish researcher invented a skin disease, gave it a clinical-sounding name, and uploaded fake papers about it to preprint ...

The hardest part of being a fake scientist is when the explanations you invent turn out to actually be true. It’s a problem Phil Edwards, the author of Tumblr-turned-textbook Fake Science, runs into ...

Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S. National Institutes of Health (Public Domain) Medical Laboratory Scientist at bench with micropipettes. — Courtesy U.S.

The black market where fake science outpaces real research The most alarming shift is quantitative: the machinery of fraud is scaling faster than the machinery of discovery. Researchers who examined ...