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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus8/02/2018 12:22:05 pm PDT

Chronicle of Higher Education sheds some light on dodgy journals:

These Professors Don’t Work for a Predatory Publisher. It Keeps Claiming They Do.

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Years ago, Traynor, an interim dean and economics professor at Wright State University, learned that a journal was misusing his name online. On its website, the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science lists a range of scholars, including Traynor, on its editorial and international advisory boards.

But Traynor and other supposed board members contacted by The Chronicle said they’ve never been associated with the publication, nor did they grant it permission to use their names. A few have spent years attempting and failing to correct it. All the while, emails have trickled in to their inboxes from disgruntled submitters of papers, asking where their money went or why the edits were so paltry.

Predatory publishers — those that shirk rigorous peer review, seek out inexperienced researchers, and levy fees for authors to publish their own work — are nothing new. More than 400,000 papers have found homes in questionable journals, according to a Finnish researcher whose estimate was reported in The Economist.

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Here’s the website the specific “journals” of the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science:
ijhssnet.com

Some really dodgy stuff in there. For example, here is one paper, “On the Evolution of Humanity: View from the “Ultron”-“Logotron” Theory”:

Which has such claims as:

Consequently, all things of the universe, ultrons of matter are secondary creation from logotrons of Cosmic Mind. The four known forces, gravitational force, electromagnetic force, and weak and strong nuclear forces are postulated to be different manifestations (contact forces) of mental force, mentalon that is inherent to logotrons, suggesting that particles and forces in the physical world are in essence products of logotrons. The inference in the ultron-logotron theory seems to possibly lead to the Theory of Everything (ToE) that has been long sought by physicists, scientists and philosophers. All things are created by mind (Buddha’s teaching) and the Word (the Bible, John 1:1-3).

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It seems to possibly state that the creationism based on the Bible might be applicable in the realm of the inner/super self (spirit, the true self) of man and the Creator. Darwin’s evolutionism is applicable in the realm of
the physical self/body of man and the physical world (Chung, 2010). Both the creationism and evolutionism seem to be correct descriptions, each explaining specific different aspects of the universe.

All manner of badness gets a seal of approval by being “published”, and deceptive “journals” abound.