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How suspect are the thousands of “predatory” websites masquerading as science journals?

We’ll show you. (First, a warning: This contains coarse language)

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Now, the news: An outfit calling itself the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is offering to print “research” that is just a rant full of very bad language.

A couple of Americans got tired of all the spam from bogus science outfits, which make money by printing scientific papers that aren’t good enough for legitimate publication.

So the Americans started replying to spammers with the sentence “Get me off your f—— mailing list,” copied and pasted over and over … and over. They threw in a couple of silly graphs. Even the title is the same phrase.

Now Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado has discovered that the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is offering to print it. Just like a piece of real scientific literature.