/sci/ - Science & Math

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I wish mods would leave one /feg/ general thread here for those of us who enjoy the bickering it brings, we could have a good time, and having the one easily hidable thread would keep this shit off the rest of the board.

>>8750366
There's no human entity, only corner Cubic Time,
rotating life's 4 corner stage metamorphosis.
4 corner head has 1 corner face, 4 face life.
Educated fools can't comprehend Cubicism.
Life is as secure as existing on a razor edge.
Apply reverse engineering to know creation.
Humans are educated stupid Word Animals,
creating a Word God and Word World, thus
inflicting singularity as mange upon Nature.
Singularity educators are unfit to even live.
Wisdom is a Cubic measure of Knowledge.
Via Cubic Wisdom, I am the wisest human.
Mind must see Time Cube eyes can't comprehend.
Time Cube impose 4 corners on Earth sphere.

>>8691380
I'm glad somebody saved Timecube.

Article on "peer review" in predatory journals, and how issues are spreading into more traditional journals:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/04/fake_peer_review_scientific_journals_publish_fraudulent_plagiarized_or_nonsense.single.html

My favorite bit was where an e-mail headed "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" was accepted for publication.

Article concludes: "We’re entering an era of cargo cult peer review. It now appears that even major scientific publishers are peddling products that have all the trappings of a scholarly journal but are fundamentally hollow at core. As it is, the majority of research published in the scientific literature could be wrong. Try to imagine just how much worse it is going to get as scholarly journals turn themselves into vanity presses."

What does /sci/ think? Is the peer review concept becoming just a scam?