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The PNAS paper from Monday got a lot of attention https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420092122 One particularly attention-grabbing point was the growth of paper mill papers, i.e., the red line. The area under the black curve is the entire scholarly literature. Judging from reproducibility projects, I have added the # of articles that are likely to be irreproducible (yellow). Sure, paper mills can some day be a problem. But compared to irreproducibility, it's a really minor problem: https://bjoern.brembs.net/2024/02/how-reliable-is-the-scholarly-literature/