>A recent analysis by the National Science Board compared U.S. publications output to the rest of the world and found that the United States was the second-highest producer of STEM publications in 2020, authoring 16 percent of the world's publication output. China was number one with 23 percent.https://itif.org/publications/2021/11/15/fact-week-china-sourced-most-stem-articles-2020-united-states-had-highest/The other dimension you haven't covered is that this is one of those 'bursting at the seams' moments where you can tell a collapse is coming by what is happening. There are in my opinion three reasons this is happening; not enough promotion of eugenic practices (aka there aren't people intelligent enough, with high enough IQs to keep up with the arbitrary output our economy demands), demographic collapse (aka there
literally aren't enough children being born in high enough IQ countries to keep up with output) and finally, the cult of GDP 'line goes up'
in this case Keynesian economics where you have to have growth goes up in every private and public sector, including medicine. This in my opinion ties into/is a proxy for the demographic decline globally in literally every nation, even China and India eventually, except Sub-Saharan, lower IQ on average countries. STEM, and particularly medicine also has to deal with an increasingly ageing population and thus keeping them as alive and comfortable for as long as possible; which also serves to drive demand for more academic papers higher.
Additionally, academia in and of itself, as a system relies on higher output to maintain funding. Western economies are dying due to increased inflation and cost of living, and students cannot afford to go to University without increasing the debt ceiling, so these papers are trying to inflate the bubble to deal with their lack of funding. That is just going to make things much, much worse, because as we all know, bubbles burst.
Clearly there is an intelligence demand and they are trying to keep up with a shortage of supply by using AI as an adjunct here. 'Filling the gaps', if you will. But, if the two largest STEM publishers are, by the usage of simple correlation here, using chatGPT to keep up with demand, the fraud is essentially being committed to prop up a dying system and declining demographics.
