These paper mills are profiting by undermining the literature that everyone from doctors to engineers rely on to make decisions ... telltale signs of fraud estimate that there are many more fake ...

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Scientific fraud is becoming a larger issue. Thousands of fake scientific papers have flooded journals and have subsequently had to be retracted. Much of this is the work of paper mills ...

But to many of the fake doctor's thousands of patients he was a reassuring presence and a prominent figure in the city's South Asian community. Image caption, Writer and theatre director Dr ...