[exDemMom]

wrote in the John Maynard Keynes post about the hollowness and “fakeness” of Western civilization today. In case you didn’t see it, KD had a post up a few days ago about so-called “peer reviewed” scientific journals and how they are nothing of the sort. Utterly fake articles made by automatic word generators that literally string random polysyllabic words together into sentence structures – in other words, NONSENSE – are being regularly published in these journals. An investigative study found over 120 such articles over the past few years.

“Peer reviewed” science and academia is a LIE. Papers are published and certified as “peer reviewed” that have literally never been read by ANYONE, including the editors of the scientific journals.

Really?

Where are these articles? References, please.

I realize that to the layperson, the articles that we scientists write and publish may seem like utter gibberish, but that is only because we are writing in a very technical language that took us years to learn. Like any language, if you don't know scientific jargon, it sounds like nonsense, but that does not mean it is nonsense to those who understand it.

I read peer-reviewed scientific publications every day. I have yet to find one that is nonsense.

[DManA]

You must have missed these:

Fake Research Papers: How Did More Than 120 ‘Gibberish’ Computer-Generated Studies Get Published?

http://www.ibtimes.com/fake-research-papers-how-did-more-120-gibberish-computer-generated-studies-get-published-1558725

[ThirdMate]

Check out Scigen:

http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Random paper generator. It works.

[Sherman Logan]

You were probably already aware of this one, but it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair

http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/transgress_v2/transgress_v2_singlefile.html