No one wants to hear that scientific journals fall prey to unscrupulous scientists who manufacture data or worse whole papers. And sometimes they even are the victims of hoaxes–even some conducted in the name of science.
Philip Davis and Kent Anderson pulled a fast one on an open access journal recently by submitting a paper that was entirely written by a computer program. Even though it made no logical sense the journal accepted the paper for publication, igniting a controversy and forcing and editor out of a job.
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This is too funny. Has there been much other coverage?
Thanks for posting, I’ll definitely be subscribing to your blog.