> Even if this is unrelated to the actual story, I find it a tiny bit disturbing. Is this the new standard practice? Let some robot spew out paragraphs of text

> Even if this is unrelated to the actual story, I find it a tiny bit disturbing. Is this the new standard practice? Let some robot spew out paragraphs of text to convey the scientist research? I wouldn't be surprised if that statement wasn't a bold face lie, and Raphael Luque was just stapling his name to papers and proceeded with a clickfarm-like business model, where he sells the impact that his publication metrics has on institutions who request his services. The defiant tone in his reply is evocative of other corruption cases where the criminal is so confident in his clever scheme that he even taunts defiantly everyone to challenge it. Even the old "I don't have a cent in my bank account" bullshit excuse is as old as time. Next he might just say that he only has good, generous friends who give him some presents from time to time.