A group of enthusiasts published a comic article in three allegedly peer-reviewed scientific journals about new methods of combating intergalactic parasites based on the animated series "Rick and Morty." The article can be read here or here, the third magazine has already deleted the publication.
Some scientific journals, despite statements about reviewing articles and apparent seriousness, are ready to publish any scientific article for the money of the author-usually such magazines are called predatory for their methods of work. To expose these journals, scientists often write frankly absurd articles and successfully publish them. For example, once one magazine accepted a multi-page article for publication, entirely consisting only of the words "Take me out of your fucking mailing list". Scientific journalist John Bohannon successfully published a knowingly bad article about the fact that chocolate helps to lose weight, and before that he spent for the journal Science a whole operation to identify unscrupulous journals. The author of the Neuroskeptic blog published an article about midi-chlorians. In Russia, the most famous example of such an experiment is the article "The Rooter: An algorithm for the typical unification of access points and redundancy", written by a computer program and published in a journal from the VAK list.
Illustration from the article about the death of intergalactic parasites.
This time, Faruk Ali Khan, a researcher and blogger working in the pharmaceutical industry, wrote an article entitled "New tools to combat intergalactic parasites and their transmission in Sigerion simulations".
The article was published by the ARC Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences and Clinical Biotechnology and Microbiology (the latter deleted the article). The author of the article notes that one of the journals "was so sure of the quality of the publication" that he even posted a link to it in his tweet. Another co-author, Sukant Hurana, wrote that this experiment should "open your eyes" to the low standards of predatory journals.
That is so cool. Rick and Morty should be studied in schools ;))
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