Predatory " Publisher and Conference Organizer " Hit with a $50M Court Judgement

I first became aware of theOmics Group six years ago when I blogged about the fraud that the company was perpretating (see:Welcome to the World of Pseudo-Academia: Pathology-2013). Here's a quote from that note about how the company was offering a set of fake scientific conferences and journals to fleece the unwary:Here's a link to thetwenty different conferences that the Omics Group has planned for....[originally 2013 but the web site has now been updated to the present time].The only way that I can describe this conference enterprise, putting aside the journals, is comprehensively audacious. Do registrants actually show up at these conferences or is the audience just faculty members? Aside from some grammatical slips and the misstep into plant pathology for Pathology-2013, the web content does have a semi-authentic feel.The biggest clue, of course, is the grandiosity of it all. It seems to be an example of pseudo-academia writ large.It appears that the the FTC has finally caught up with the India-based Omics International as described in a recent article (see:‘Predatory’ Scientific Publisher Is Hit With a $50 Million Judgment). Below is an excerpt from it:In the world of scientific research, they are pernicious impostors. So-called predatory journals, online publications with official-sounding names, publish virtually anything, even gibberish, that an academic researcher submits — for a fee. Critics have long maintained that these journ...
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