9/11 Truthers Just as Good as CRAP
9/11 truthers were all atwitter when Steven Jones announced he along with Kevin Ryan, Neils Harritt and Tony Szamboti had gotten a paper accepted in a “Peer Reviewed” science Journal. A first for the conspiracy theorist promoting the idea a super duper double secret nano thermite had brought down the World Trade Center.
Unfortunately debunkers soon pointed out the science journal in question was Bentham Open Journals, a for all intents and purposes a vanity publisher. You pay, they publish. Not exactly a REAL peer reviewed publisher of hard core science information. This did little to get the tin foil hat wearing conspiracy huckster taken seriously by scientist who know what they are talking about.
The dubious quality of Bentham’s peer review process has been brought into clear focus by a graduate student at Cornell University. They got a paper accepted by Bentham that consisted of nothing but computer generated nonsense.
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The writers of the paper even dropped a hint of the hoax by giving their institutional affiliation as the Center for Research in Applied Phrenology, or CRAP.
CRAP paper accepted by journal – opinion – 11 June 2009 – New Scientist.
This is not the first time “pay-to-play” journals have been had. The Cornell students withdrew the hoax paper, Why? Because they are students, and Bentham wants $800 to publish.
The 9/11 Truth movement dies a slow but humorous death but does provide a good laugh from time to time.
Oh, sure, here you are being all judgmental about the merits of various scientific publications. Just for your reference, the 9/11 Commission Report as well as NIST and FEMA papers were never peer reviewed at all prior to publication.
But you know what… Here’s something I recall. Weren’t you supposed to get in touch with me to set up a 9/11 debate some months ago… A half-year or so… What gives, Admin? You know you can’t win so you chicken out or what?