Archive for November 4th, 2009

If it’s true, it is not libel

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Mohamed El Naschie is suing Nature ’cause they accused him of abusing editor privileges (pdf) to self-publish poor quality papers.

Well, if the papers were reviewed by peers, it shouldn’t be a problem to prove that, and the the case has merits, but otherwise there really isn’t any case at all.

The number of self-publications in the journal, though, would make me bet that Nature is right on this one, though…

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