Dr. Steven Novella

There were fake references in there.

Yeah.

I think Aaron and I immediately disagree with that.

Before you say attach my name to this paper...

You should make sure it's not AI generated.

Yeah, I agree.

And man, is that an incentive to make sure that doesn't happen.

Imagine if you are that one punk and you just got 100 of your colleagues banned from the archive for a year.

So that is, I think, completely appropriate.

But also, if only one of them did it, they would expose it, right?

The flip side is all 100 have to not do it in order for that paper to get through.

Yeah.

And if the guy did it against their will, then that's fraud.

Then that's legitimate.

If you say, listen, he added my name without my knowledge.

I had no knowledge.

That's different.

Yeah, then you should probably be putting in for a retraction anyway in a resubmission.

Yeah, but if you know that you put your name on a paper, you are putting it on your CV, you're getting your little bit of credit for having your name wherever it is, you are responsible for that content.

Yeah, absolutely.