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General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on February 16, 2018, 01:06:11 PM

Title: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 16, 2018, 01:06:11 PM
The dangers of 'extreme celerity'


https://io9.gizmodo.com/fake-research-paper-based-on-star-trek-voyagers-worst-1823034838/amp
Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on February 16, 2018, 04:11:08 PM
Far less implausible stories were explained away by dreams, alternative realities, or the holodeck.

That episode really was a stinker.
Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Nearly Sane on February 16, 2018, 04:29:01 PM
Absolutely, but that there are 'science' journals out there that would accept this because of a number of reasons isjusr another example of why we have to be careful of fake news.
Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Steve H on February 16, 2018, 10:59:17 PM
STV had some spectacularly silly stories, but I missed that one.
Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Harrowby Hall on February 17, 2018, 08:46:11 AM
Well, I - with no appropriate qualification - have been published in a very prestigious American science journal - the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

About 10 years ago, I took a photograph at a village event and I used it to embellish a Wikipedia article on a tradition folk custom.

I decided to Google my name to see what kind of internet "footprint" I was leaving and there was a reference which meant nothing to me. I opened it and found that the activity my photograph had been used to provide an analogy of a particular process in nanotechnology. The PNAS correctly credited me with the photograph.

I shall add that paper to the (modest) list of my publications.

Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Walter on February 18, 2018, 04:27:10 PM
Well, I - with no appropriate qualification - have been published in a very prestigious American science journal - the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

About 10 years ago, I took a photograph at a village event and I used it to embellish a Wikipedia article on a tradition folk custom.

I decided to Google my name to see what kind of internet "footprint" I was leaving and there was a reference which meant nothing to me. I opened it and found that the activity my photograph had been used to provide an analogy of a particular process in nanotechnology. The PNAS correctly credited me with the photograph.

I shall add that paper to the (modest) list of my publications.
HH , sounds interesting perhaps you could make reference to the title of your paper so I can read it .
Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Harrowby Hall on February 18, 2018, 05:13:24 PM
I would happily do so were it not for the fact that my real name appears in the accreditation.
Title: Re: Problems of 'predatory' scientific journals and worst ever Stat Trek: Voyager
Post by: Walter on February 18, 2018, 06:04:18 PM
I would happily do so were it not for the fact that my real name appears in the accreditation.
Tonight Matthew I'm going to be .......... mysterious