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I often get invited to speak at bizarre meetings that are not in my field of expertise. I have often wondered what these meetings must be like, or if they really exist.

What is it like to attend a predatory conference?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02358-w

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What is it like to attend a predatory conference?

Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events.
Ro, Christine
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Albert Cardona
Albert Cardona
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If you say yes, they'll use your name to lure in other researchers. If you all were to agree, it'd become a proper conference, indistinguishable from the regular conference series organised as a business by established entities.
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Frank Aylward
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@albertcardona i don't think they are very targeted, though. If i agreed it seems doubtful that other people in my field would show up too - it would just be me presenting giant virus work to dentists and nephrologists in a half empty room at a Marriot
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