I can't imagine how you could possibly regulate this. The scientific community is not a single entity, and it doesn't have a single central authority. Specific scientific peer-reviewed journals are a sort of authority, and tricking someone into thinking that a paper was published in a peer-reviewed journal when it wasn't is probably a trademark violation, but there's nothing stopping you from creating your own journal and claiming that it's "scientific" because it's about natural phenomena and "peer-reviewed" because your brother looks over it for spelling mistakes. Not unless you're suggesting mandating that no new scientific journals ever be allowed to be created.

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