PDF Forgeries Are Surprisingly Rare
- N/A One kind of fraud is striking in its absence online: tampered or forged PDFs.
- People create malicious videos, photos, chat logs, and Microsoft Word documents all the time to scam and propagandize people, or publish entire PDFs full of garbage science, but they don’t edit existing PDFs.
- Once in a while I see someone object to a paper I host on Gwern.net by saying “but that’s not on a real journal website!
Unverified
- N/A One kind of fraud is striking in its absence online: tampered or forged PDFs.
- People create malicious videos, photos, chat logs, and Microsoft Word documents all the time to scam and propagandize people, or publish entire PDFs full of garbage science, but they don’t edit existing PDFs.
- Once in a while I see someone object to a paper I host on Gwern.net by saying “but that’s not on a real journal website!
Sources: Gwern