John Ioannidis: AI is generating false, fraudulent and fake medical research
whoamisri · reddit · 2026-10-14
John Ioannidis, the epidemiologist famous for exposing the reproducibility crisis, warns that AI is generating "false, fraudulent and fake" medical research, lowering the barrier to fabricated data and papers and posing a systemic threat to the credibility of the medical literature.
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