Gaslighting a predatory journal

As if there was any lingering doubt about the editorial practices of low-quality online scientific journals, a Canadian reporter named Tom Spears got one to publish an editorial ridiculing itself: "We suspect the journal may have published the piece online without actually reading it — which would explain why it allowed its own editorial to accuse it of cheating, of being a wolf in sheep’s clothing that preys on scientists, of self-aggrandizement and of smelling bad."

January 12, 2017

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