<div dir="ltr">OTTAWA — I have just written the world’s worst science research paper: More than incompetent, it’s a mess of plagiarism and meaningless garble.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div>Now science publishers around the world are clamouring to publish it.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div>They will distribute it globally and pretend it is real research, for a fee.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">
</div>It’s untrue? And parts are plagiarized? They’re fine with that.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> </div><b><font color="#ff0000">Welcome to the world of science scams</font></b>, a fast-growing business that sucks money out of research, undermines genuine scientific knowledge, and provides fake credentials for the desperate.<div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><u>Mailers note:</u></b></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><i><font color="#ff0000">This is the problem making scholarly communication publishing "commercial".</font></i></b></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><b><i><font color="#ff0000">Scholarly communication publishing should be a non-profit activity of academic libraries in the internet age.</font></i></b></div>
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