The Genesis of this Blog

This blog is an offshoot of Forensic Science, Statistics & the Law. Two of the most popular postings were lists of flaky academic or professional journals and conferences and correspondence with the staff operating some of them. The criteria for inclusion on the lists are unsolicited email to me and presumably many other individuals (spam), indications of shady practices or possible incompetence in the subject areas, and reports on other websites or media. The burgeoning length of the lists and supporting information made them unwieldy, so I decided they merited separate blogs that could be more readily updated and searched.  (23 Dec. 2016, modified 6 Dec. 2020)

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  1. Physiotherapy London 8th int conf on neurorehab etc.....with the email reply of steve@scientific ....
    alexanderconference@gmail.com.
    Multiple . emails sounded genuine but refused to send last years proceedings or a program. An email to the hotel venue was replied with no booking and no conference scheduled. On qurstioning steve and Alex i got told to pat immediately or no disciu t. Then i was informed i had my invitation removed. Scammmmmm...

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    1. The group behind this conference is the World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. A Wikipedia entry on it describes such practices more generally. The entry also reports that "WASET is based in Turkey and is registered in Azerbaijan. Its domain name was registered 2007 with a contact address in Dubai. It is run by Cemal Ardil, a former science teacher, with assistance from his daughter Ebru and his son Bora. Cemal Ardil is also the person who has published the most articles on the WASET website. Before taking on the name WASET, the organization was known under the name of 'Enformatika'."

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