New York Times “A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia”

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/upshot/fake-academe-looking-much-like-the-real-thing.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_up_20161230&nl=upshot&nl_art=0&nlid=77110281&ref=headline&te=1

  A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia

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Sham scholarly publications and academic conferences without rigor reflect a legitimate problem: too many Ph.D.-holders chasing too few credentials.

and Huffington Post “Predatory Conferences Undermine Science and Scam Academics”

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/dr-madhukar-pai/predatory-conferences-academia_b_12467834.html

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