I read this article recently about an academic who wanted to prove that academic journals are often a complete farce. He wrote an entire paper that was completely nonsensical.
He just used important sounding words and stuff, but he didn't prove anything or make any contribution whatsoever to the body of academic work. I don't think he was saying that all academic journals are a farce, but it was interesting anyway.
These are called predatory publishers these days. You pay for "open access" fast track review process, they charge around 1000 USD depending on context and journal. And they just don't care about the content. True academic publishing is biased in other ways. There is so much wrong with it, I wouldn't know where to start! ;)
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