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… except I didn't say "fudge"

 

"Get Me Off Your F---ing Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a journal

 

They don't say fudge in the paper, either.

 

There are a bunch of journals out there, many advertising themselves as "open access" that will print basically anything — for a fee. Many claim to be peer-reviewed, as does the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, who accepted the paper.

 

IJACT … is a highly-selective, refereed journal. Manuscripts that appear in the IJACT Articles section have been subjected to a tiered review process. This includes blind review by three or more members of the international editorial review board followed by a detailed review by the IJACT editors.Although feedback ordinarily will be given, the editors reserve the right to reject a manuscript for publication without a rationale for their decision.

 

Oh, really? A reviewer marked its appropriateness as "excellent". It was accepted; the only reason it wasn't published was that the submitter didn't want to pony up the $150 it would have taken.

 

The article chronicles other deliberately substandard submissions that were submitted to, and often accepted by, similar journals. Their sleaziness can't be blamed on Schwartz.

 

 

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