Phys.org  June 21, 223 A group of multidisciplinary scientists are working to tackle research fraud and poor practice using metascience. Fraud in science is alarmingly common – sometimes researchers lie about results and invent data to win funding and prestige, researchers might pay to stage and publish entirely bogus studies to win an undeserved pay rise—fueling a “paper mill” industry worth an estimated €1 billion a year. More sophisticated AI which can generate plausible scientific data is a new threat. Some of this can be easily spotted by peer reviewers, but the peer review system has become badly stretched by […]