From: aa5@gmx.net   
      
   In the debate around Open Science and Open Access many universities and   
   publishers have warned before so called predatory publishing. Lowering the   
   entry barrier and treat science as a for profit-business is attractive for   
   non-scientists how want to profit their own profit but are not interested   
   in academia itself. In the context of newly founded openaccess journals   
   which are pretending to publish science, some sorts of fake academic   
   conferences and non-sense papers generated by the Scigen software are   
   circulating through Academia. A famous example is:   
      
   Stribling, Jeremy, Daniel Aguayo, and Maxwell Krohn. "Rooter:   
   A methodology for the typical unification of access points and   
   redundancy." Journal of Irreproducible Results 49.3 (2005): 5.   
      
   which was indexed by google Scholar. The mentioned “Journal of   
   Irreproducible Results” doesn't exists at all and this example shows,   
   what will happen if the the ivory tower is under pressure.   
      
   After a bit researching the topic of Fuzzy logic, there is a growing   
   suspicion, that the subject is also located in the domain of fake   
   science. That means, a typical sign for a fake science conference is, that   
   some of the invited speakers explains something about gradient and set   
   theory which is not a real theory, but has a non-scientific background.   
      
   I have to admit, that i'm not an expert for Fuzzy logic, so i want to   
   hear the voice of experts in the field. Is Fuzzy logic a fake, and are   
   conferences about the subject organized by predatory publishers?   
      
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