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In the three years since the Citizen started covering fake science publishers, the constant question has always been: How bad can they get?

This week, the Indian company OMICS set a new low. It published meaningless garbage submitted as a test by the Citizen last fall, then got exposed for it, but has now accepted the same garbage all over again. Verbatim.

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It will help us present the meaningless work as valuable research — if we pay them $1,499 U.S. In advance, please.

This shows OMICS is skipping the most crucial part of academic publishing — doing a quality check on material it publishes, called peer review. In fact, given that our garbled text doesn’t say anything, the Indian company probably doesn’t read what it publishes at all.

Here’s how it happened.

“Predatory” science publishers are companies that pretend to publish new research from scientists. In reality, these journals will put anything online for a hefty fee. This allows substandard academics who can’t get their work into legitimate journals to buy black-market credentials.