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AI Flags Quarter Million Cancer Papers as Likely Fabricated, Triggering New Research Crisis

An AI system flagged 261,245 cancer papers as likely fabricated, revealing that suspicious research climbed from 1% to over 16% since the early 2000s as paper mills industrialized fraud.

August 4, 2026