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While I'm here, Sham journals scam authors is pretty good from JA. But really: a journal with no website? Do they still write with ink quills?
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Two years ago I was dismayed to find that a pair of crank authors had managed to slip a pseudo-archaeological paper into a respected geography journal. Last spring they seemed to have pulled off the same trick again, this time with an astronomy journal. Pseudoscience is after all a smelly next-door…
The complexity of sharing scientific databases:
Under US law, pretty much anything you write down is copyrighted. Scrawl an original note on a napkin and it's protected until 70 years after your death. Facts, however, are another matter - they can't be copyrighted. So while trivial but creative…
I have far too many "interesting" things queued up in feedly, so its time for a dump.
Controversial paper linking conspiracy ideation to climate change skepticism formally retracted. mt is fiercer: Journal’s Mealy-Mouthed Retraction of Lewandowsky Paper. I wasn't terribly keen on the paper myself,…
The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine is a sham concocted by Merck and Elsevier. See here and here. I'm sure there are some sort of ethical issues here.
Update (5/3): Janet and Isis have more on this. Janet notes:
Myself, I'm not really moved by the claim that publishing standards…
I preferred this one a few weeks ago: http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/viewer.aspx
Particularly like the menacing "Told you not to make a fuss!" caption.
Hmm... looks like that link probably won't take you to the right place. Try this one instead.
The picture of the three ladies is funny, but the headline is depressing. Superstitious people commit murder, and it's witchcraft that's a threat?
The one with the "Man Jumps from Ferry" headline next to the photo on the waterfront of a toddler waving bye-bye was an interesting juxtaposition.
[I liked that one. It was restrained -W]
Look at this video to appreciate the depths of despair.
I don't understand why Comic Sans is disliked more than, say, athletic jackets. On the blustery day my father was buried the officiant wore a bright yellow athletic jacket to the grave site. Few things say, "Disengaged" more than a priest in casual wear at a grave site.
The local papers usually don't have problems with poorly (or amusingly, depending on your take) located photos, but their headlines can be brutal. Two examples, from my town's paper, not ten months apart in time
Teen on Tracks Killed by Train Wearing Headphones
Man Killed by House on Snowmobile
Occasionally I get the feeling the writer of the headline actually knew what he/she was doing, as with these:
Tornado Knocks Waffle House Flat as Pancake
Woman Participating in Sex Game Accidentally Shot In Face