Briefing Chat: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies
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Briefing Chat: Top researchers are being misled by sham academic societies

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 9, 202612 min
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In this episode we discuss a recent Nature exclusive investigating an international constellation of sham academies and societies that have successfully misled some of the world’s leading scientists and universities. Nature: Exclusive: Sham scientific societies are misleading star researchers Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hi listeners, Benjamin here. Welcome to The Friday Show. Something a bit different this week. We've got a really interesting story that we wanted to get on the show, but because of the no bells and conference attendances, things like that, we couldn't quite get the diaries to line up. But we've got a story by reporter Max Kozlov, who's been doing some

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investigative work diving into the world of sham academic societies. Now, it turns out There's a network of these organizations that are, in several cases, misleading senior researchers and they've been looking to swell their ranks through deceptive practices. Max is here to tell me more about it. Max Kozlov, thank you so much for being on the show.

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Happy to be here. So before we start on your journey then, many of our listeners will be members of learned societies, sometimes known as academic societies of course. Let's define what these organizations actually are.

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