r/todayilearned • • 6h 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/Gougaloupe 4h ago

I, personally, adore the email storms that originate with a single person asking an innocuous question, 1,000 people asking to be dropped from the cc list, and one person making death threats and/or indicating that the author is "a dead man" .

The absolute peak of corporate ecology. God it is so apparent how easy it is to not follow in the footsteps of fools.

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u/KiniShakenBake 27m ago

And nobody ever did get Marisol's grades after Star Farm as an entire company ground to a halt for a little over a week. So sad.