>Seems ridiculous to me, why would teens even have peer-reviewed papers, or even papers, to their name? Pretty much only because of this scam - so an automatic

>Seems ridiculous to me, why would teens even have peer-reviewed papers, or even papers, to their name? Pretty much only because of this scam - so an automatic 'fraud' signal IMHO. For reference the comment I was responding to implied that the ONLY way for a teen to be an author on a paper was because of this scam. I was pointing out that that is obviously not the case.