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Submission + - More Fake Journals from Elsevier

Submitted by daemonburrito on Saturday May 09, 2009 @03:39AM

daemonburrito writes: Last week, we learned about Elsevier publishing a bogus journal for Merck. Now several librarians say that they have uncovered an entire imprint of "advertorial" publications.

Excerpta Medica, a "strategic medical communications agency", is an Elsevier division. Along with the now infamous "Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine", it published a number of other "journals".

Elsevier CEO Michael Hansen now admits that at least six fake journals were published for pharma companies.

Submission + - Artist/Astronomer Spy Sat Photos on Exhibit (wired.com)

Submitted by daemonburrito on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @03:26AM

daemonburrito writes: Trevor Paglin, the photographer/co-author of "Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights" and "I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me", has an exhibit of 189 photos of secret US satellites showing in Berkeley. Story in Wired.

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