I can see how the following "services" would be helpful to a desperate academic: 1. Paying to have one's legitimate manuscript accepted, instead of going throu

I can see how the following "services" would be helpful to a desperate academic: 1. Paying to have one's legitimate manuscript accepted, instead of going through the normally time-consuming and capricious process of reviews and revisions and re-submissions. 2. Paying to build up the citation count for existing publications. But the what the article is describing seems to be well beyond that and crazy.