The rotten underbelly of academic publishing
#medicalwriters #STEM #academicpublishing

The link is to the article by Nick and Alexander Magazinov exposing authorship-for-sale networks, where someone submits a (usually plagiarised or fabricated) paper to a journal, and then sells the co-author positions on the internet.
Papers pass peer review, because that is organised by a crooked editor who is paid by the authors.

https://forbetterscience.com/2022/10/19/the-incredible-collaborations-of-renaissance-men-and-women/

Thanks to Nick Wise on Twitter for the original information.