<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bernard, Christophe</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">AI-Generated Scientific Papers: Crisis? What Crisis?</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eneuro</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2026-01-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><elocation-id><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ENEURO.0470-25.2025</style></elocation-id><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.1523/ENEURO.0470-25.2025</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">13</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Picture a man in a deckchair, umbrella overhead, relaxing with a drink in hand—while surrounded by industrial wasteland and decay. This was the iconic 1975 album cover for Supertramp's Crisis? What Crisis? The image perfectly captured the cognitive dissonance of denying catastrophe while sitting in its midst. Rick Davies conceived the artwork to satirize how some responded to England's economic crisis of the mid-1970s: “Crisis? What crisis?”Fifty years later, I find myself in my own version of that deckchair—though instead of industrial ruins, I am surrounded by what may be “arguably the largest science crisis of all time.” And just like that man with his parasol, I am tempted to pretend everything is fine (Figure 1).But it is not fine. Not even close. We are facing an uncomfortable truth: the scientific literature is being flooded with fraudulent papers on an industrial scale. This crisis threatens to erode public trust in research at the very moment we need that trust most.Paper mills are commercial operations that mass-produce research articles for paying “authors”—scientists under career pressure to publish or perish. These companies have industrialized the research process: they harvest public databases, apply standardized analytical pipelines, generate AI-written introductions and discussions, create publication-ready figures, and sell complete manuscripts with guaranteed authorship slots.The scale is staggering. Recent estimates suggest hundreds of thousands of fake publications are produced each year, with the number accelerating rapidly thanks to generative AI. This represents what some have called “arguably the largest science crisis of all time”—a crisis that threatens to erode public trust in research at the very moment we need that trust most.And here is the uncomfortable reality: we, the scientific community, are funding this fraud. Public …</style></abstract></record></records></xml>