IF YOU START SACKING JOURNAL EDITORS...:

Editor quits after journal accepts bogus science article: Science journal fails to spot hoax despite heavy hints from authors (Jessica Shepherd, 6/18/09, guardian.co.uk)

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.

...just for printing unconsidered crap, you'll free up a lot of shelf space in the libraries.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 18, 2009 2:04 PM