THE VIDEO SHELF · predatory publishing
DEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory
A DEF CON 26 talk by investigative journalists and hackers on the fake science industry, with bogus conferences and predatory journals that give studies false credibility. It draws on a large investigation into the money behind them.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended as a funny but depressing investigation, and the usual link in threads on predatory publishing and fake citations.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- DEFCONConference
- Topic
- predatory publishing
- Format
- talk
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 5
- HN mentions in dataset
- 8
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2018–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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Inside The Fake Science Factory from DefCon 26. First you'll laugh. And then you'll weep for humanity! [VIDEO] Also really dug Jeremy Rifkin's The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Outlines the rollout of a possible new engineering platform consisting of free energy, …
ArtWomb on Hacker News · 2018-12
In Ask HN: Best talks of 2018?Inside the Fake Science Factory (2018) is an amazing DEFCON talk, by 3 people who stumbled on and investigated an unbelievably huge worldwide network (400,000 scientists involved) of fake-scientific conferences, journals, websites raking in money and enabling people to make claims that their products are …
yesenadam on Hacker News · 2019-01
In Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)Inside the Fake Science Factory is an amazing 2hr talk talk from DEFCON 2018 by 2 German journalists and a British science guy about an investigation into the world of predatory fake journals, conferences, websites. 400,000 scientists involved. Unbelievably huge scam. They wrote bogus papers …
yesenadam on Hacker News · 2019-02
In Thousands of scientists run up against Elsevier’s paywall
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