Science

that aggressively solicit articles from published (and vetted) authors. I was second author of the introduction of an important special issue of a medical journal. Since that time, not a day passes without a solicitation from at least one medical journal I've never heard of, offering me prominent exposure for anything I'd care to write for them.

I am not the scientist who did the research for our introduction. I am a scientific writer, not a person who is in the field. If I accepted one of these invitations, I could be cited as a published authority on something I know absolutely nothing about. There should be a way to identify these e-zine journals when whackos use them as support for insane theories.