Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Not Romanian, or Indian

I’ll bet Mr. Mohammed, like millions from developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent, are getting money to travel to “international” meetings. So, they don’t really care where it is, what’s it’s about, or who runs it. As long as it says indexed in XYZ, and maybe some phony claims about ISI, or Scopus – like a zillion spam/scam e-mails I get each week, particularly from China – then their idiotic research institutes are responsible for proliferating this fraud. If the money source were to dry up, then these equally idiotic scientists who abuse the system would also wither away into insignificance. The fact that their universities are built up of technocrats who don’t know the difference between a cream bun and a marshmallow, but who are willing to dish out funding to support pseudo-academic trips to pseudo-academic meetings – like those organized by Omics – proves that the rot in science and publishing is actually being instigated by a higher level than scientists. Cut all funding to OA publishing and let’s see how quickly Beall’s list of “predators” will shrink. I suggest not only adding pressure into the thin-walled skulls of individuals like Mohammed, but also of clearing the management that run Mohammed’s institute. Like weeds, pseudo-researchers and their pseudo-institutes need to be cut off at the roots. The voices of discontent have been too soft for too long, and look at how deep the mess has become, with no end in sight to the level or complexity of the fraud that affects us all. Only severe public shaming and criminal prosecution can save us now.