[open-science] Fake Cancer study published in 157 Open Access Journals

Fri Oct 4 13:19:46 UTC 2013

I cannot see what is FUD if an article clearly demonstrates serious
problems of gold OA. I am a little more shocked of the reactions of the OA
community which plays down the alarming results than of the article itself.
This is siege mentality and absolutely not helpful.

Klaus Graf

2013/10/4 Jenny Molloy <jcmcoppice12 at gmail.com>

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>> The argumentation is just wrong, and I find it
>> rather ironic that a journal accepts a paper with clear flaws in the
>> argumentation that did a sting with a paper with this issue.
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> It's presented in Science as a journalistic piece rather than research,
> the National Geographic article doesn't make this clear.
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>> Conclusions they could have made: peer review does not work. But that
>> they do not state.
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>> So, FUD. Let's move on.
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> Agreed, but this is the FUD that's getting published to a wide readership
> and may form the basis of some people's perception of open access so as
> Daniel says it's worth being aware of what arguments are being put out
> there, as flawed as they may be. I get questions from people about open
> access just after stories about it in more general forums and larger media
> outlets so it's good to know the details to better explain why they're FUD
> (if they are).
>
> Jenny
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>> Egon
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>> --
>> Dr E.L. Willighagen
>> Postdoctoral Researcher
>> Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT
>> Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/)
>> Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/
>> LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw
>> Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/
>> PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers
>> ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286
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