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I love the fake papers. I think it is necessary, like a Snowden move, to expose how bad publications are at weeding out bad data and conclusions. It only serves

I love the fake papers. I think it is necessary, like a Snowden move, to expose how bad publications are at weeding out bad data and conclusions. It only serves to make the publishers look bad, not the writers.

zeepzeep 6y ago
It's the same with security. Hiding the fact that you're vulnerable doesn't make you secure. "Hacking is illegal", yeah, but you'll be hacked. -> Don't sue researchers!
fabian2k 6y ago
This is about a predatory open access journal that isn't even indexed on Pubmed. Scientists will never see papers from that journal anyway. And anyone publishing in it is either hopelessly naive and without support from an experienced researcher, or just publishing there to put publications on their CV, knowing that the paper will likely accept anything you throw at them.
- JPLeRouzic 6y ago
  >> This is about a predatory open access journal that isn't even indexed on Pubmed. I have read very few strange things on Pubmed, but still some seems out of place in a medical/biology publications repository [0-2], so I have a question about indexation on Pubmed, is it possible to tweak this indexation to make it more stringent? [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28366104/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28366104/ [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17574055/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17574055/ [2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9324572/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9324572/