>"Sometimes there are minor variations in the wording but in more than a dozen articles we found almost identical language with different genes and diseases see

>"Sometimes there are minor variations in the wording but in more than a dozen articles we found almost identical language with different genes and diseases seemingly plunked into the paragraph, like an esoteric version of Mad Libs, the parlor game in which participants fill in missing words in a passage." Though programs to auto-generate academic papers have existed for quite a while, and the garbage output papers have even been published in journals, I think a Mad Libs based program to generate "human-guided" academic papers would be a whole lot of fun at parties. >"Now that a number of companies have figured out how to make money off of scientific misconduct, that presumption of honesty is in danger of becoming an anachronism." Just wait until a rowdy game of Academic Mad Libs at a party or pub is more fun than quarters or beer pong as a drinking game. It would mean everyone could be Alchodemic and Sloshfisticated. (All joking aside, the frightening thought is it would be fairly easy to automate human-guided plagiarism/fraud paper creation. It's already a solved problem in the automated "news" webspam regurgitation space.)