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MedCrave Exposed — Dan Reichart

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On the topic of predatory journals, I recently decided to put the MedCrave Group to the test. The MedCrave Group runs about 130 online journals, mostly in the medical profession. Back in May, many astronomers received a mass email from them, soliciting articles in the area of "astrology". I decided to oblige, with a completely farcical, and not-at-all subtle submission...which they recently accepted to their "Physics and Astronomy International Journal", and immediately published on their website (since taken down, but here's a copy). Read it, and see if you can catch all of the pop culture references and gross scientific errors ;) Anyway, then they started asking me for $668. Instead of ignoring them, I decided to take them head on and wrote them a rejection letter...from author to journal! And in it I included an *extensive* review of my own own article, so they would have a template for conducting peer review in the future. I post these for everyone's enjoyment, but also in the h

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