This has been all done and dusted already. Really what I’m doing is archiving it here in case the other locations for whatever reason go dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The short version of events is that I was spammed by a pay-to-publish academic publisher, and I trolled them. The longer version is that this is the tip of a very dangerous iceberg of academic publishing, which threatens to destroy the credibility of peer review itself, not to mention the careers of many developing world and early career researchers. Anyhow, I banged on about that here before<\/a>. For reference and archiving, it is now reproduced on this blog here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhow, here’s the article in question, just in case the hosting scam publisher goes dark, which they might well. You might have fun with it. It’s short, and packed full of joke references and some fun satire of academic writing. And lots of science fiction in-jokes for the nerds out there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has been all done and dusted already. Really what I’m doing is archiving it here in case the other locations for whatever reason go dark. The short version of events is that I was spammed by a pay-to-publish academic publisher, and I trolled them. The longer version is that this is the tip of … <\/p>\n
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