Science Magazine - Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

October 3, 2013

DOI: 10.1126/science.342.6154.60

…Ocorrafoo Cobange does not exist, nor does the Wassee Institute of Medicine…submitted 304 versions of the wonder drug paper to open-access journals. More than half of the journals accepted the paper, failing to notice its fatal flaws…the data from this sting operation reveal the contours of an emerging Wild West… …acceptance was the norm, not the exception…

Counter-argument from Curt Rice in the Guardian