Spotting And again the "finding reviewers is very hard (bock-bock-bock)" talking point. Look folks, if no one is there to review a certain piece of shit, maybe it is indeed of no interest? Why making a pretence of "bustling scholarly exchange" in an essentially write-only field?

Spotting Well, once this mode of operation gets prominent, it is hard to move away from it. Isn't it reminiscent of a plague of scam crypto-trading platforms, where the turnaround volumes are produced by bots only? This "environmental science" has its own bots and even Kadam-bots.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… What the fuck is going on with Elsevier? How is this AI generated nonsense getting published ? Am I missing something ? Am I wrongly believing this is nonsense ? Just what the fuck

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Hi, ČVUT v Praze. Is it normal for your staff to collaborate with an active colonel of the Russian Army into 2023?

Count me unsurprised. Intifada and sloppy science are in collocation again.

... so that academics can waste all that energy producing nonsense using said word processor.

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If the world had paid more attention to the controversial outcast freelance science journalist Leonid Schneider, Masliah would have been busted much much earlier. In this article from January 2023, Leonid wrote about evidence found by Cheshire Elisabeth Bik and myself.

A vacation for con artists, all expenses covered from taxpayers' pockets.

A Hungarian PhD student is invited to collaborate on papers whilst at a conference, then it all gets out of hand. An impressive article by Gábor Stöckert building on my recent investigation into an Iraqi papermill. telex.hu/komplex/2024/1…

Retraction Watch There is only 1 true 'dr' Bic!

Any chance that the manuscript is a pile of garbage no one wants to touch, and desk rejection would have been a wise decision?

Little does it matter, because the real meaning turned out to be "SHIT".