Saturday, March 1, 2014

Reputable Scientific Journals Fooled Into Publishing "Unreadable Gibberish"

Proving that it's often hard to distinguish between the real gibberish and the fake sort:
Some 120 papers published in established scientific journals over the last few years have been found to be frauds, created by nothing more than an automated word generator that puts random, fancy-sounding words together in plausible sentence structures. As a result they have been pulled from the journals that originally published them. 
The fake papers are in the fields of computer science and math and have titles such as “Application and Research of Smalltalk Harnessing Based on Game-Theoretic Symmetries”; “An Evaluation of E-Business with Fin”; and “Simulating Flip-Flop Gates Using Peer-to-Peer Methodologies.” The authors of those papers did not respond to requests for comment from FoxNews.com. 
This is not the first time nonsense papers have been published...
And, no doubt, it won't be the last time.

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