The world of fake science journals is known for publishing bogus studies in every scientific field, but now there’s a weirder twist: an ethics journal that will publish anything for US$900.
‘The arrival of a fake ethics journal shocked even Roger Pierson, a distinguished professor of medicine at the University of Saskatchewan who has been watching the predatory journal field for years.’
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The field of fraudulent ethics is new, but fake academic publishing (mainly in science and engineering) is vigorous and spreading. The Sun did a series more than a year ago showing its seamy underside.
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We easily found journals that accepted a fake article we submitted with alternating paragraphs of medicine and geology (all of them plagiarized, and the resulting paper meaningless). And a cardiology journal accepted our paper that was mostly about infection, but with the word “cardiac” inserted over and over.
