Why A Fake Article Titled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" Was Accepted By 17 Medical Journals
Why A Fake Article Titled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" Was Accepted By 17 Medical Journals
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Shrime decided to see how easy it would be to publish an article. So he made one up. Like, he literally made one up. He did it using www.randomtextgenerator.com. The article is entitled "Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs?" and its authors are the venerable Pinkerton A. LeBrain and Orson Welles. The subtitle reads: "The surgical and neoplastic role of cacao extract in breakfast cereals." Shrime submitted it to 37 journals over two weeks and, so far, 17 of them have accepted it. (They have not "published" it, but say they will as soon as Shrime pays the $500. This is often referred to as a "processing fee." Shrime has no plans to pay them.)Comment: Image source
And I thought it was obnoxious when I shouted "I'm Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs" while gutting a deer. (deer scat look almost identical to the cereal)
ReplyDeleteObviously, I lose.
But really, Dr. Shrime loses to people who have actually published in refereed journals, where theoretically the article is read by reviewers, doing the same kind of nonsense. Suffice it to say that the state of research these days is pretty bad.