404 Media Investigation: '100% Human-Written' Medical Peer Review Company Is Entirely AI, With Fake PhD Staff
Justgototheeffinmoon · reddit · 2026-08-18
404 Media investigation finds Research Gold, which charged $1,900 per systematic review while advertising '100% human-written, never AI' medical research services, is run entirely by AI. All nine listed PhD 'methodologists' had fabricated credentials and AI-generated headshots; real academics were listed without permission with photos scraped from LinkedIn. Phone, email and chat responses were all machine-generated.
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