"Uromycitisis" Trolling Story: the Final Word | John H. McCool, MA | Pulse | LinkedIn

"Based on several pieces of evidence—including, but not limited to, my previous bad experience with another MedCrave journal (the Journal of Nanomedicine Research) and your own atrocious English grammar (just an observation; no offense intended)—I identified the Urology & Nephrology Open Access Journal as likely fake, possibly predatory, and probably susceptible to being scammed in this way. My intention was to expose your journal’s complete lack of scientific integrity and non-existent peer review process and, by getting it to publish a made-up case report based on an episode of a popular American television comedy series, to subject it to merciless ridicule. I think I succeeded on all counts.

After exposing your journal in this way, I say to you the following:

• Stop taking advantage of genuine researchers whom you know are under tremendous professional pressure to get their papers published. Jobs, promotion, and tenure depend on this; and you seeking to callously and purely profit off these people is despicable.
• Stop referring to your peer review process as “rigorous.” Clearly, it is not.
• Stop essentially stealing the names and reputations of legitimate urologists and claiming that they’re on your Editorial Board. I know of many who are listed as 'Honorable Editors' (whatever that means) without their knowledge or consent.
• Stop disrespecting yourself and the wider scientific community by publishing a fake journal. Either institute real standards and promote real science or get out of this business. Not only are you not needed, you’re actually harmful.
• Get a real job. You’re better than this—at least I hope you are.

Sincerely,

John McCool (a.k.a. “Dr. Martin van Nostrand”)"