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Is science being published for a fee?

 
 
Reply Sat 3 Jan, 2015 12:34 pm
More and more internet sited and organizations are popping up which will publish "science" studies for a fee, rather than by virtue of peer review.

The proliferation of anti-information clogs the Internet, but it's something which real researchers are going to have to become much more aware of. We've seen this already here on A2K with regard to some Cosmology Journals with questionable motives and highly questionable science.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/10/03/228859954/some-online-journals-will-publish-fake-science-for-a-fee

Peer review has always been the measure by which scientific claims were evaluated, but as more pay-for-review sites pop up with their own approved group of "peers" which will review any article in a favorable light for a fee, it will be come harder and harder to differentiate the real journals form the fake ones.
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