There are already bad actors in science, including “paper mills” churning out fake papers. This problem will only get worse when a scientific paper can be produced with US$15 and a vague ...

More information: Weixin Liang et al, Quantifying large language model usage in scientific papers, Nature Human Behaviour (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41562-025-02273-8 ...

He is also developing an expertise in spotting errors in scientific papers. Most recently, and notably, he discovered flawed or manipulated data in studies conducted by top executives at the ...