The Misinformation Machine

How Fraud, AI, and Greed are Corrupting Science

Can We Still Trust Science?
What if a medical study were fabricated? What if AI could generate a convincing fake research paper-complete with data, methods, and images-in minutes?
It already can. And it is already happening.
In The Misinformation Machine, science writer James Lawrence Powell exposes the industrial-scale corruption of research-and the investigators fighting back.
You will discover:

• How a single fraudulent paper can mislead medicine for years
• Why predatory journals publish almost anything
• What the hydroxychloroquine scandal revealed about broken safeguards
• How paper mills and bot networks manufacture fake authority
• How fraud investigators detect deception in published research
• Why AI-generated fake science may become the most dangerous threat of all
• What every reader can do to distinguish real science from counterfeit

Science remains our most dependable way of discovering what is true. But that depends on trust-and trust must be earned, defended, and sometimes rebuilt. The Misinformation Machine shows what is going wrong, who is fighting back, and why the integrity of science matters to us all.
"A powerful case that all scientists and societies based on truth need to wake up... Every scientist and editor should read it." - James Kennett, Member, National Academy of Sciences
James Lawrence Powell is the author of many books on science and earth history, including Mysteries of the Deep, a finalist for the PROSE Award from the Association of American Publishers and winner of the MIT Press Alumnus Writing Award. His research on scientific consensus has been cited worldwide, giving him an insider's view of how science succeeds-and how it fails.
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