Evil scamming fake publishers
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2024-09-07
David Weakliem reports:
There is a journal called the EON International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. I recently discovered that I [Weakliem] am listed as the Editor. I am not the editor—I had never even heard of this journal before, and would have declined if they asked me to be involved, since it looks pretty sketchy. I have written to the publisher telling them to remove my name from their site but also wanted to announce it publicly just in case anyone has noticed.
Apparently there was a previous fake editor—when he found out and objected, they put me in.
Here it is:
This is evil, all right! More evil than anything Wolfram Research has ever done, I think.