Comment on Publishing Pseudo-Science by Colin Barron

I am not suggesting, Dr Krishnakumar, that these responses should be accepted. What they indicate is that the people who make such comments, may be smart, but they lack academic integrity and academic rigour. This is alarming and dangerous because these qualities are required to maintain academic research standards and to drive knowledge forward. Some of the people who have made comments like those in my first post are professors or aspire to be professors in the near future. They will be sitting on promotion boards. If they are prepared to accept low quality journals and low quality articles, they are not going to challenge them on the boards. The reputation of the authors and the university will suffer in the long run.