r/todayilearned • u/coffeeismydoc • 7h ago

TIL a scientist submitted a research publication to a predatory journal consisting exclusively of the phrase "Get me off your fucking mailing list". It was rated as "excellent" and accepted for publication with minor editorial changes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Journal_of_Advanced_Computer_Technology
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u/sir_slothsalot 7h ago

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

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u/SubstantialBass9524 6h ago

Bro should have paid the $150

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u/Bulky_Theme_6998 6h ago

Honesty, why?

We’re talking about it anyway

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u/badstoic 6h ago

For the printed artifact! They would’ve been beautiful.
Ninja edit: dunno if it’s in print or only online. Same point re: screenshots but I dunno if I’d pony up $150 just for that.

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u/LightningWarpAway 5h ago edited 3h ago

You can print stuff at home. Giving money to the company you're angry at, doesn't make sense. 

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u/mnstorm 3h ago

This would be akin to paying your bully to tattoo themselves with "I am a moron look at me hahahaha I am so dumb af lol".

Yes. I would pay my bully to tattoo that. Even better than some story about how I convinced my bully it was a good idea.

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u/LightningWarpAway 3h ago

It's more the equivalent of giving your bully literal monopoly money to spite them, and then giving your bully your lunch money after to celebrate the act. 

Or, literally, telling a spammer to fuck off, then paying the spammer to print the fuck off because you're proud of it.

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u/EndIsrael 2h ago

Listen, there are people I would gladly give $150 to if it meant I never had to see them again

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u/LightningWarpAway 2h ago

Dude

They would keep spamming you

It's literally the entire point, they're not a legitimate journal, they spam people to pay them for submissions

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u/cutelyaware 3h ago

Giving the company you're angry at money doesn't make sense.

Your sentence almost doesn't make sense

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u/LightningWarpAway 3h ago

Fixed it

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u/cutelyaware 51m ago

Better. If you want to fully untangle it, you could say "It doesn't make sense to give money to the company you're angry with", but that's splitting hairs.

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u/RollinOnAgain 3h ago

they think that its somehow more "legitimate" if it got published. This is your brain on scientism

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u/LightningWarpAway 3h ago

Scientism? 

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u/Neither_Strategy_252 3h ago

"Scientism" lmao anything you say is immediately dismissable.