Some notes on "Citations for Sale" about King Abdulaziz University offerring me $$ to become an adjunct faculty

This article stemmed from a blog post by Lior Pachter.  I was interviewed by the Daily Cal reporter about this because I had sent Lior some of the communications I had had with people from KAU where they tried to get me to do this.I am posting here some of the email discussions / threads that I shared with Lior and Megan.Thread #1.Here is one thread of emails in which KAU tried to get me to become an Adjunct Professor.  I have pulled out the text of the emails and removed the senders ID just in case this would get him in trouble.Received this email 3/6/14Dear Prof Jonathan, How are you? I hope every thing is going well. I hope to share work with you and initiate a collaboration between you and me in biology department, Kind Abdulaziz university . My research focuses on (redacted detail). I hope that you would agree . Redacted Name,Ph.DAssistant Professor, Faculty of Sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA.My response:What kind of collaboration are you imagining?His response:Hi Prof Jonathan, Let me to explain that the king abdulaziz university initiated a project which is called Highly Cited Professor ( HiCi). This project can provide a contract between you and our university and from this contract you can get 7000 US$ as a monthly salary .So  this project will allow you to generate two research proposal between you and a research stuff here in order to make an excellent publications in high quality journals as you always do. I hope...
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