Four articles make up this issue of the USF bulletin. The first deals with a “plague” that is currently very widespread in research, specifically the existence of thousands of predatory journals owned by “scientific scammers”: they are paid journals, without serious quality control, traps that young doctoral students can fall into. How can they be avoided?

The second article deals with a serious scientific integrity problem related to fabricated references, which is increasing rapidly, raising doubts about the value of certain articles.

The third is about the cognitive consequences of the use of artificial intelligence: we find the millennial myth of Theuth that, after the creation of writing, evoked the loss of human cognitive abilities. A strange and stimulating parallel!

The last is a sociological reflection that tries to understand why the end of famines and the satisfaction of basic needs have led to the rise of individualism.

I wish you good reading.