Paper about the brain that may hurt your brain.

[Ringer]

I saw this paper today and the abstract alone hurts my head. I have no idea what is happening in it, and I have to ask myself "how the hell did the reviewers and editors let this through. Sage isn't exactly a great journal publisher, but wow.

 

http://qix.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/07/11/1077800413489534.abstract

 

If you can't get through the paywall here's a blog that covers the paper:

http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/is-this-the-most-bizarre-paper-ever-published-in-a-peer-reviewed-journal

Edited August 15, 2013 by Ringer

[Phi for All]

OMG. Sage should stagger vacation schedules, or stop doing Open Bar Fridays.

[CharonY]

Ouch. Well whatever the paper was about, it clearly demonstrates the dangers of self-medication with psychoactive drugs.

[Phi for All]

Ouch. Well whatever the paper was about, it clearly demonstrates the dangers of self-medication with psychoactive drugs.

 

Do you get the feeling that the knitting and the crocheting were accompanied by some model-airplane-building in an unventilated room?

[imatfaal]

Didn't Capt Ref write a program that generated poetry and I am sure I have seen a website that spouted "socio-critical thinking" claptrap - I reckon someone has written a program which generated pseudoacademic psycho-babble. And it has just passed Sage's version of the Turing test

[Delta1212]

How? What?

[Tridimity]

Unless there is some kind of hidden meaning, I think the author may need to see a counsellor. Impact factor, Qualitative Investigation, 0.870