Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI
404 Media found Research Gold, advertised as '100% human-written' medical research, is run entirely by AI with fake PhD staff.
Research Gold advertises PRISMA-compliant systematic reviews and meta-analyses drafted by PhD methodologists, but its listed experts are AI-generated personas that do not exist. Real methodologists, including evidence synthesis scientist Jenny Berrio, were listed without permission using photos copied from LinkedIn. Customer calls and quotes were handled by AI agents that insisted they were human, quoting $1,900 for a systematic review.
- Founder Dr. Elena Vasquez and other listed experts have no publication history or online footprint.
- Real methodologists were listed without consent using LinkedIn profile photos, including one with #OpenToWork.
- The phone agent 'Sarah' insisted it was a real person during the reporter's calls.
- Victims
- Jenny Berrio
- Organizations
- Research Gold404 Media
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Research Gold, a site that advertises services for medical researchers, including drafting peer-review ready manuscripts, systemic reviews and meta-analyses, claims that it’s “100% human-written, never AI,” and lists a number of PhD reviewers and professional methodologists on staff that carry out this meticulous, difficult work.
By Emanuel Maiberg · 404media.co
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