Fake academic papers are on the rise: why they're a danger and how to stop them

Peer review is often touted as a highly rigorous process, but it's always been an honor system that relies on most of its participants being basically honest and well-intentioned. Once the element of cutthroat competition is introduced, those assumptions become far less safe.

The question is why is a community supposedly dedicated to truth and quality of information falling victim to this? The likely answer is what we're all expecting, the publish or perish culture put in place by major publishing houses and the pressure that puts on academics to maintain their livelihoods will cause some to cave under the pressure and pursue darker paths, and this is just another marker of that.