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Nature staff discuss a network of organizations that have been building their ranks through deceptive practices.
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- Benjamin Thompson
- Max Kozlov
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In this episode we discuss a recent Nature exclusive investigating an international constellation of sham academies and societies that have successfully misled some of the world’s leading scientists and universities.
Nature: Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-03216-7
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