Re: [Wikimedia-l] Unreliable sources? Pay-to-publish science journals and too-trusting popular news outlets

2015-12-27 Thread geni 
On 28 December 2015 at 02:44, Pine W  wrote:

> Food for thought for those interested in the quality and reliability of
> references:
>
> http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-journalist-scammed-the-media-into-spreading-bad-chocolate-science
>
> Pine
>


Eh running a search of Beall’s List:

http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

against the wikipedia database is probably something that should be done
but beyond that the problems aren't really limited to any specific type of
journal.


-- 
geni
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[Wikimedia-l] Unreliable sources? Pay-to-publish science journals and too-trusting popular news outlets

2015-12-27 Thread Pine W 
Food for thought for those interested in the quality and reliability of
references:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/05/28/410313446/why-a-journalist-scammed-the-media-into-spreading-bad-chocolate-science

Pine
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