25/09/2026
Education knows no limits !
The wonderful world of Bogus or Bluff Education. Who cares! Business is business.
● invented sources:
https://retractionwatch.com/2026/09/08/editors-of-higher-education-journal-coauthor-editorial-with-fake-references
● invented quotations:
https://www.theeduledger.com/faculty-staff/article/15835454/journal-editors-use-fake-citations-in-their-own-oped
● invented conferences:
https://guides.library.jhu.edu/open-access/predatory-journals
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AI today can not only write automatic reviews and fake articles, but also expose unserious academic conduct: plagiarism, false attribution of an argument, invented sources, uncritically copied mistakes by another author, compound reviewing, that is, thoughtless replication of arguments (against an author or a current), underlying political bias, disguised hate speech (examples Sam Harris, Douglas Murray, Raymond Ibrahim, Gordon Chang, others), etc.
There are unsolicited and persistent invitations by email for quick publication with the promise of a wide reach. A trendy website that displays a high impact factor in flashing letters. But not everything that calls itself scientific deserves trust. Predatory journals exploit the openness of the op...