“Manufactured Certainty and the Curiosity Industrial COmplex”

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In 2023, ProPublica exposed an industry selling guaranteed research publications to high school students for thousands of dollars. The investigation named the problem. This paper names the mechanism — and the alternative. "Manufactured Certainty" is the first systematic analysis of how pay-for-play research programs structurally eliminate the uncertainty that makes real research formative. Written from Seoul by a researcher who spent 20 years choosing fieldwork over the private education industry, it asks what we lose when curiosity becomes a commodity.

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  • "You're teaching students to be cynical about research. That's the really corrosive part."

    — Kent Anderson, former publishing director, New England Journal of Medicine (via ProPublica, 2023

  • "Being a teenager isn't about getting into some elite college for doing something that will look good. It is about being good."

    — Sara Harberson, former Associate Dean of Admissions, University of Pennsylvania

  • "The push for publication leads young scholars astray. The message is that looking like a champion is more important than training to be a great athlete."

    — Matthew Jaskol, co-founder, Pioneer Academics