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I thought some here might enjoy this story about a reporter who intentionally submitted a plagiarized paper to certain online journals1. He created the paper by combining text from a geology and a haematology paper. Several of the journals agreed to publish the paper.

I wonder how many times publications like this are exploited to give questionable science an air of credibility? I'd like to think that such papers wouldn't withstand scrutiny of the scientific community, but they might be cited by people arguing one position or another on forums such as ours...

1There's a link to the full radio interview on the web page that I linked to above.

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