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According to Intelligent Design the Future, a new "Peer-Reviewed Paper Argues for an Engineered Universe"
| Quote | | On this episode of ID the Future, Dr. Dominic Halsmer, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University, discusses his 2010 peer-reviewed paper, "The Coherence Of An Engineered World," published in the International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics. Listen in as Dr. Halsmer explains to Casey Luskin why the universe is bio-friendly and the signs of engineering he sees in Nature. |
Hmmm.... Call me suspicious, but when anybody connected with Oral Roberts University publishes a pro-ID screed in a "peer reviewed" anything, I start to wonder.
So, Google "International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics." There it is. "Published by WITPress Journals."
Under "General Information", click on "Wessex Institute of Technology" Very impressive web page.
Google "Wessex Institute of Technology". Let's see what Wikipedia says about them. Oops:
| Quote | Contributions to its International conference programme have included papers promoting intelligent design creationism from Dominic Hassler, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Oral Roberts University ("The Coherence of an Engineered World"),[citation needed] and a joint paper by Scott A. Minnich and Stephen C. Meyer reiterating claims disputing evolution of the bacterial flagellum.[3]
WIT Press is the publishing service of the Wessex Institute of Technology. It publishes conference proceedings and a number of specialized research monographs and edited works. There are, however, doubts about the seriousness of some of these publications, as the case of the VIDEA conference in 1995 documents.[4][5] |
Here's NCSE's entry: | Quote | Additionally, the other thirty proteins in the flagellar motor (that are not present in the TTSS) are unique to the motor and are not found in any other living system. From whence, then, were these protein parts co-opted?
Minnich (2005) expert report, March 31, 2005 / Scott A. Minnich & Stephen C. Meyer (2004). "Genetic Analysis of Coordinate Flagellar and Type III Regulatory Circuits in Pathogenic Bacteria." Second International Conference on Design & Nature, Rhodes Greece. Wessex Institute of Technology, September 1, 2004. |
But the VIDEA entry is even better: http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp........ea.html which leads to http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp........er.html | Quote | WARNING: Beware of VIDEA!
Werner Purgathofer, Eduard Groeller, Martin Feda,
TU Wien / Austria.
Abstract
This paper illustrates that there are conferences which will destroy confidence in scientific life if the community does not forbid them. The Wessex Institute of Technology (UK) [1] organizes a whole series of regular conferences on various topics [2]. Our experiences are only with one of these, "VIDEA", but one should probably also be careful with the others. It is an offense against honorable scientists to offer false publication possibilities under a scientifically serious disguise for high fees. Our conclusion is: VIDEA accepts EVERYTHING! And we conclude from that that a publication in the VIDEA proceedings is worth NOTHING AT ALL! And to organize such a conference is simply a fraud. Conferences like VIDEA are a morally dispisable scheme to allow people to buy themselves publications without having to undergo any type of reviewing. It simply increases the flow of worthless data and makes it more difficult for scientists to extract really useful information |
| Quote | When two of the authors were asked to become members of the program committee for VIDEA'95 (to take place in La Coruna, Spain), we planned to test if any reviews take place at all. We would send them four abstracts that are obviously plain nonsense, that no excuse for accepting them could be taken seriously. This paper reports about this activity.
The submitted abstracts
We decided to write more than one crazy abstract to make sure that an acceptance cannot be interpreted as accident and so we tried different types of weird papers proposals. The first of four abstracts we produced was simply a completely irrelevant topic, namely how to create footprints on the walls of public rooms. It includes several statements that every reviewer must recognize as joke. The complete text is given in abstract 1.
The second abstract describes a correct method which makes no sense at all, that is how to render interior rooms without light. Obviously, the resulting image will be completely black. This was written as in abstract 2.
These first two productions have at least a little bit the structure of a scientific paper abstract. What we also wanted to try was, if VIDEA would accept its own text as abstract. So we copied the complete introduction from the "Call for Papers" and gave this abstract the title of the conference. Minor changes were only made like changing the word "conference" to "paper". The result is given in abstract 3.
Last but not least we decided to produce an abstract without any content, just complete nonsense. So we took a dictionary of information processing words and selected randomly some 40 phrases from there and joined them together to a fantastically technical sounding text. The given reference is, of course, the utilized dictionary! We had much fun with abstract 4. |
| Quote | Results
All abstracts were sent to the conference in November 1994 and on January 14th, 1995 we received the results. All four abstract have been "reviewed and provisionally accepted"! This means, that the VIDEA conference organizers [3] claim someone has reviewed these abstracts and has found them suitable for the conference! As members of the program committee two of us had nothing to do with reviewing.
The acceptance letter also contains information from which can be concluded that final papers will only be printed in the proceedings if the registration fee is paid together with the final paper. |
No word on how that lawsuit turned out.
F/N Dembski and Marks have been publishing in "peer reviewed" IEEE papers. Google "ieee fake journal" (without the quotes) sometime.
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