What a cool name: "Bambang". It sounds familiar:
Posted on 06/19/2009 10:31:05 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
The editor-in-chief of an academic journal has resigned after his publication accepted a hoax article.
The Open Information Science Journal failed to spot that the incomprehensible computer-generated paper was a fake. This was despite heavy hints from its authors, who claimed they were from the Centre for Research in Applied Phrenology – which forms the acronym Crap.
The journal, which claims to subject every paper to the scrutiny of other academics, so-called "peer review", accepted the paper.
Philip Davis, a graduate student at Cornell University in New York, who was behind the hoax, said he wanted to test the editorial standards of the journal's publisher, Bentham Science Publishers.
Davis had received unsolicited emails from Bentham asking him to submit papers to some of its 200+ journals that cover a wide range of subject matter from neuroscience to engineering.
If their papers are accepted, academics pay a fee in return for Bentham publishing the papers online. They can then be viewed by other academics for free.
Davis, with the help of Kent Anderson, a member of the publishing team at the New England Journal of Medicine, created the hoax computer science paper. The pair submitted their paper, Deconstructing Access Points, under false names. Four months later, they were told it had been accepted and the fee to have it published was $800 (almost £500).
Davis then withdrew the paper and revealed it as a hoax. Bambang Parmanto has since stepped down as editor-in-chief of the Open Information Science Journal. Parmanto told New Scientist that he never saw the paper.
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And now we know part of the reason why Global Warming is as “accepted” as it is.
This was done several years ago with a sociology magazine, IIRC. The magazine was indignant when they were outed.
The problem with the “peer review” system is that it does nothing to prevent a tiny circle of whack-jobs from “peer reviewing” each other's spewings. Peer review is no guarantee of scientific validity; if your peers are all members of the tin-foil-hat brigade.
Well, that and the fact that Phrenology is a well-known pseudoscience involving the analysis of bumps on the noggin...
This is more embarrasing. Sokal’s targets were pomo social “scientists”, while this journal purports to be a peer-reviewed hard science journal.
You sure it’s not a vanity press for cranks?
That’s the one I was thinking about.
SUch nice English boys....This happens a bunch with the Journal of Irreproducible Results. Which is real and which is phony? Of couse any research institute for phrenology shouldn’t be suspect should it?
I was the editor of a peer reviewed, scholarly journal
And I will tell you this could not have happened at my magazine.
Doesn’t of seem like everything is falling apart?
Looks like the New England Journal of Medicine wanted to highlight the rather poor background of one of its rivals.
True enough. Picking on pomo social “scientists” is tantamount to bullying the handicapped. Still, the hoax did reveal the absurdity of pomo philosophy, better than any legitimate academic debate could have ever done.
You've got to be pretty dumb not to catch this right off the bat. Phrenology has become almost a euphemism for pseudoscience. That alone wouldn't necessarily disqualify it, if not for the term apply. That pretty much tells you it's a joke. I'm guessing these nitwits don't even know what the word means.
The editor-in-chief’s name is Bambang Parmanto? WTF?
ROFLMAO
This is a lie of course. Oh look it's a Muslim name. Other articles mention that payment is to be sent to a P.O. Box in Dubai.
What a cool name: "Bambang". It sounds familiar:
Peer Review, Publication in Top Journals, Scientific Consensus, and So Forth
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1963
Robert Higgs
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