Read this FastCompany piece for a hilarious (but also disturbing) story about medical journals.

An MD who is working on his PhD in health policy at Harvard was annoyed by the stream of emails from journals that promised to publish his research, in exchange for a mere $500.

The student got to wondering if those journals were academically serious, or merely easy money schemes. So he concocted a completely made-up paper: “Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs” by Pinkerton LeBrain and Orson Welles, then submitted it to 37 journals. Within two weeks, 17 had accepted it, but won’t actually publish it until the “processing fee” is paid.

From undergrad courses that don’t meet or require any work to bogus scholarly journals, there is a lot of fakery going on in the realm of higher ed.

Hat tip: Edububble