The number of papers being published is growing at a staggering rate. This requires proportional growth in the number of people reading these papers, which inev

The number of papers being published is growing at a staggering rate. This requires proportional growth in the number of people reading these papers, which inevitably means the plagiarists and cheaters themselves are being pulled into the review system as well. They don’t care about letting fraudulent papers slip through because they never really cared about the science in the first place. They see it as a game that they’re playing and they’re doing their best to put as little effort as possible into the game while extracting as much reputation upside as they can. We really need to make publishing fraudulent papers a career-ending move across academia and even the industry. The only reason this continues to happen is because it has a lot of upside but very little downside. Caught publishing fraudulent papers? Oh well, just leave them off your resume and apply somewhere else.