Scientific truth is under attack. 📉 We investigate the massive corruption of the peer review process, where "Paper Mills" are using AI to flood journals with fake research. This isn't just a future risk; it has already forced the retraction of over 10,000 papers in a single year.

1. The Wiley Scandal: We break down the catastrophe at Hindawi (a subsidiary of Wiley), where industrial-scale fraud forced the publisher to close 19 journals and retract 11,300 papers. Fraudsters infiltrated the "special issues" system, using AI to generate gibberish papers with "tortured phrases" that passed peer review because the reviewers were likely AI-bots themselves.

2. The "Rat with Giant P*nis" Incident: It sounds like a joke, but it's real. We discuss how Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology published an AI-generated diagram of a rat with anatomically impossible features and nonsense labels like "testtomcels." This viral failure exposed how even "peer-reviewed" journals are failing to catch blatant AI slop.

3. The Death of Trust: We analyze the "Publish or Perish" culture that drives this. Desperate for citations, researchers are paying paper mills to put their names on AI-generated studies. We explore the feedback loop: future AI models are now being trained on this fake science, potentially poisoning the well of human knowledge forever.