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If InTech suffered early day mistakes, they haven’t improved with time.

Last spring a new InTech online book on global warming appeared. It deals heavily with a cold snap in North America, with items like this: “On Sunday, January 05, 2014, Packers while playing in his field one of the matches of the final round of the National Football League at that time, En Green Bay in Wisconsin, temperature could fall from 28 degrees to below zero degree.”

Underneath the fractured English, this seems to mean that Lambeau Field is cold in January.

But the author’s English suddenly improves: “This latest arctic blast may set the stage for generally nuisance snow to spread across the Midwest Monday through Tuesday…” Why so fluent? Because it’s stolen verbatim from an old AccuWeather report.

There’s no attribution, making it plagiarism and academic fraud by any university standards.

The article claims to solve the entire problem of climate change in a few sentences. The solution roughly amounts to this: We must burn less fuel and eat local produce.

A 2014 book on pharmacology includes chapters on hearing loss and poultry production. A medical text includes a chapter on car maintenance.

The author of another book thanks God and his typist in the acknowledgments, while another author thanks his mother in heaven.

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The email trail shows that the first warning came in October of 2014. An Agriculture Canada librarian in London who specializes in journals noticed that a Health Canada official was listed as chief editor of a suspicious publication. She wrote to Health Canada asking whether the official was really the editor of the International Food Risk Analysis Journal.