Welp. This is a hell of a story.
Canadian Mining Journal published what appeared to be an entirely fabricated deep-sea mining paper, with quotes from fictional people and a source paper that does not exist.
Andrew D Thaler
The Canadian Mining Journal retracted a lengthy article that quoted made-up people and cited made-up facts about deep-sea mining. Observers aren't surprised.
"I was puzzled when first reading through it — how could a journal have published a complete article around an academic study that does not seem to exist?" said Greenpeace deep-sea mining campaigner S...
