Wednesday, October 09, 2013
"Some Online Journals Will Publish Fake Science, For A Fee"
Skeptical me is not surprised by this.
It's a sad example that everyone has a price...
It's a sad example that everyone has a price...
National Public Radio's Richard Knox recently posted about tis on the KUHF-FM website:
"When medical research is published in a peer-reviewed journal, the presumption is that the study has been reviewed for accuracy. The advent of open-access journals has made it easier to get published. But when a journalist sent an obviously faked paper, dozens of open-access journals said they'd be happy to publish it, for a fee." "To find out just how common predatory publishing is, Science contributor John Bohannon sent a deliberately faked research article 305 times to online journals. More than half the journals that supposedly reviewed the fake paper accepted it."
