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• lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And how did it end? Was it published? Did they get off the fucking mailing list? Wikipedia doesn’t say.

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  • BertramDitore@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It does:

    …the paper was reviewed, and its appropriateness for the journal’s publishing criteria was rated as “excellent” by the journal’s peer-review process. It was accepted for publication with minor editorial changes. The paper was not actually published, as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 article processing charge. This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The paper was not actually published, as Vamplew declined to pay the required US$150 article processing charge

      At first I was like “come on! Do it for the bit!”, but then I remembered that, far from having the “make a Broadway sized song and dance number telling mining mogul Bob Murray to eat shit”* money of Last Week Tonight, scientists tend to be less than extravagant in their capital holdings…

      What a way to end the season, though! ❤️😂

      *which was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics in 2020

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    • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This case has led commenters to question the legitimacy of the journal as an authentic scholarly undertaking.

      Gotta love the “please don’t sue us” phrasing there.

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    • lemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh, thank you. I stopped reading when it started to talk about someone else 9 years later, I thought it would be some other controversy. I wish he crowdsourced the $150 though. I wonder how many citations it could have gotten…

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