Also in this week's Nature, an investigation of predatory conferences! Journalist Christine Ro actually attended one. Her observations are eye opening.
I get spam emails from these conferences on a weekly basis. I've never been tempted to attend one. I tend to go to conferences sponsored by professional societies that I know fairly well, or other established conference series. However, as the article shows, many do not have the luxury of being as picky as I am. Predatory conferences are basically rip-offs, of both the attendees and those who evaluate their CVs.
DTLR hereby denounces predatory conferences, and urges scientists to boycott these sham events.
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