I saw this paper today and the abstract alone hurts my head. I have no idea what is happening in it, and I have to ask myself "how the hell did the reviewers and editors let this through. Sage isn't exactly a great journal publisher, but wow.

 

http://qix.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/11/1077800413489534.abstract

 

If you can't get through the paywall here's a blog that covers the paper:

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/is-this-the-most-bizarre-paper-ever-published-in-a-peer-reviewed-journal

Edited August 15, 201312 yr by Ringer

OMG. Sage should stagger vacation schedules, or stop doing Open Bar Fridays.

Ouch. Well whatever the paper was about, it clearly demonstrates the dangers of self-medication with psychoactive drugs.

Ouch. Well whatever the paper was about, it clearly demonstrates the dangers of self-medication with psychoactive drugs.

 

Do you get the feeling that the knitting and the crocheting were accompanied by some model-airplane-building in an unventilated room?

Didn't Capt Ref write a program that generated poetry and I am sure I have seen a website that spouted "socio-critical thinking" claptrap - I reckon someone has written a program which generated pseudoacademic psycho-babble. And it has just passed Sage's version of the Turing test

How? What?

Unless there is some kind of hidden meaning, I think the author may need to see a counsellor. Impact factor, Qualitative Investigation, 0.870