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by britzkopf 866 days ago
Having recently listened to the freakonomics episode on the same thing I'm mystified by something that podcast and this article do. They state that they're is an estimated 2% of bunk papers or there but then also that they are "becoming overwhelmed by the amount of bogus research" or that they "would estimate that there are far more paper mill papers than general papers" when it's like "swimming in garbage". 2% doesn't seem like it should elicit those sentiments.