Here's the oldest article I can find on Leonid Schneider's blog, from 2015. https://forbetterscience.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-potential-predatory-publishe

Here's the oldest article I can find on Leonid Schneider's blog, from 2015. https://forbetterscience.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-potential-predatory-publisher/ https://forbetterscience.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-poten... It's about a group of journals optimised for sleazy publishing. The author claims he left research due to rampant fraud and went into cartoons and insulting the perpetrators instead. In 2021 the Wikipedia page on paper mills was created. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_paper_mill&action=history&offset=&limit=500 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Research_paper_mi... Macchiarini has been at it since, what, 2005? Basically, one might as well go as far back as WWII and Ghislaine Maxwell's dad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnmFTvlrsOo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnmFTvlrsOo