don,
your comment is very much appreciated. contributors to design discourse have to be vigilant and when money becomes involved, it may not always be easy to sort out what is legitimate and what is not.
the same applies to calling for contributions to international conferences -- discussed on this list, causing uninformed controversies to be raised. there are plenty of commercial outfits that exploit the desire to be heard.
klaus
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Don Norman
Sent: Sunday, May 31, 2015 5:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Hoaxes in science
I do wish to reassure this group that reputable publications and journals do not lie. They are sometimes deceived, but when this is discovered, they issue an apology and retract the publication.
Authors (whether scientists or others) do lie, but it is the job of reputable journals to discover when this has happened.
In the particular example being discussed, the paper was published in a non-reputable journal, one that takes money for publishing, promises to do a full refereeing, but in fact does not. It is not in existence to aid
science: it is in existence to make money. So a good journalist could have discovered this by examining the reputation of the journal.
BUT: The fact that a journal might charge to publish your work or that it might be published by a for-profit company does NOT mean it is not reputable. Many of the world's best journals are starting to charge because of the extreme costs of publishing (editorial costs, mostly), and their lack of income. Many of the world's best journals are published by for-profit companies (e.g., Elsevier or Wiley). But they do not link the ability to pay to the acceptability of the paper. Most have ways that impoverished authors do not have to pay.
But yes, beware of the rogue journals that do not thoroughly vet their articles.
(This topic has been discussed numerous times on this forum, and i do not wish to repeat the arguments here. The link I forwarded was simply a reminder that we all have to be careful about which journals we submit to and which ones we cite. It is unfortunate, for this adds yet more work to our already overworked life.)
Don
On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Katherine J Hepworth <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> In the tradition of I.F. Stone<https://vimeo.com/123974841>
> investigative journalists start their work from the position that all
> powerful people and organizations lie. This of course includes
> universities, professors, and academic publishers.
>
Don Norman
Prof. and Director, DesignLab, UC San Diego [log in to unmask] designlab.ucsd.edu/ www.jnd.org <http://www.jnd.org/>
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