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Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by herr doktor bimler

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Further thoughts come to mind on the difficulty of distinguishing between predatory journals and their non-predatory peers that limit themselves to mere grasping commercialism ones…
I was looking at this paper, from January:
http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00934/abstract
Note that it was published in a journal from the Frontiers stable… who normally have decent functioning peer review (although in this case publishing a “special issue”). The third author is Ruggiero. The second author, Pacini, is a frequent Ruggiero collaborator — she was co-author of his AIDS-denialism paper that received the unusual honour of being retracted by ‘Medical Hypotheses’ (and I see that she is also the last author of the first GcMAF paper you listed). The first author, Jeff Bradstreet, specialises in experimental treatments for autism, and at various times has proclaimed chelation, “magnetic
resonance therapy”, stem cells, and now GcMAF as the ‘cure’ (Bradstreet has featured regularly at Orac’s Respectful Insolence blog).

This is a case where I suspect that the Frontiers journal failed in its gatekeeping function, despite its non-predatory nature.


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