In china medical students are required to publish original papers. Instead they just pay someone to write it for them and pollute the literature.

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jacquesm 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

So much for the curation argument of the price justification of professional journals.

	▲	yorwba 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The typical graduation-requirement paper doesn't get published in a professional journal, so I think professional journals do provide significant curation.

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nottorp 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Medical? What's the point? I'm happy with 98% of doctors being able to handle known conditions and only the few percent that are really interested to do research.

	▲	throwaway85825 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It makes the university look better if they do a lot of 'research' even if it's fake. There's not a real reason a doctor needs to do research for an MD.