A new study in The Lancet shows that the rate of fake citations increased more than 12x between Jan 2023 and Feb 2026.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00603-3/fulltext
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@petersuber you get this when you let AI writing the paper
Thanks Gen-ai! You are truly a gift to science and the world! 🙄
So much for LLM and AI, but of course authors used to make up things long before…
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Potential incentized correction : Discovery of a fake citation during review leads to instant rejection.
@petersuber but can we trust this?
@petersuber Threshold of trust long since breached ...
@petersuber I guess it might be time to go back to the in-house hard-copy to determine what is true or false. We're seeing the death of information and the dumping of concocted half-truth of the most misleading kinds. That coupled with human over-confidence and over-reaching is a bit troubling.
@petersuber La recherche biomédicale est vraiment l'homme malade de la science...
@petersuber this is going to be an aspect of recursive pollution. #MLsec
https://berryvilleiml.com/2026/05/06/recursive-pollution-hits-the-ciso-circuit/
