Blog & Vlog

A 2025 PNAS study found paper-mill output doubling every eighteen months, and compromised editors inside legitimate journals. Checking the journal is no longer enough — and reading the paper does not help either, because a fabricated paper is internally coherent.

We ran a check to confirm seven copies of a nine-item list matched. It passed. Every copy was the old seven-item version. What a check that compares copies to each other can and cannot tell you — and why consistency is not correctness.

We audited a predatory journal expecting to find lies and found none. Every identifier real, every claim implicit, nothing on the page falsifiable — and the reader supplies the credibility themselves. What that technique is, where it bites, and why checking the journal is no longer enough.

Why we keep a dated log of what AI models do to text. Eight to twelve hours a day on a crash project made a pattern visible that an hour a day would not. The day text vanished, and what we started noticing once we looked.

Clarity is not a writing skill. It is whether you understand the thing you are saying. Five voices across twenty-four centuries, and what that means for a dissertation.