{"id":5836,"date":"2017-12-16T17:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T17:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/?p=5836"},"modified":"2017-12-16T17:17:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T17:17:38","slug":"court-calls-dodgy-science-publisher-deceptive-issues-injunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/court-calls-dodgy-science-publisher-deceptive-issues-injunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Court calls dodgy science publisher &#8216;deceptive,&#8217; issues injunction"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">Court calls dodgy science publisher &#8216;deceptive,' issues injunction<\/h1>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/court-calls-dodgy-science-publisher-deceptive-issues-injunction\">Tom Spears <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-details byline\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A U.S. court has ordered the world\u2019s biggest fake science publisher \u2014 a company that accepted a\u00a0<\/span>ridiculous paper<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0on flying pigs submitted by this newspaper \u2014 to stop its \u201cdeceptive\u201d practices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-details byline\">It\u2019s a victory, the FTC says in a press released titled \u201cFTC Halts the Deceptive Practices of Academic Journal Publishers.\u201d OMICS can operate, but it has now been severely restricted in claiming its journals are peer-reviewed, which is an essential feature of all academic publishing. It also has to stop advertising editorial boards that don\u2019t actually exist. It must also show all fees clearly and conspicuously.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"popup_DATA_BROKER\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-target=\"#popup_DATA_BROKER_modal\" href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/button_banner-Data_Broker.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FTC also alleges that, to promote their scientific conferences, the defendants deceptively use the names of prominent researchers as conference presenters, when in fact many of those researchers had not agreed to participate in the events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read full article and learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/local-news\/court-calls-dodgy-science-publisher-deceptive-issues-injunction\">Deceptive Advertising here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Here\u2019s How To Make Sure You,\u00a0Your Business & Website Is FTC Compliant<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go.ftcguardian.com\/bw4uoy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/ftcguardian\/images\/728x90-Un-vjy-FTC-GUARDIAN-banner-2.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By now it should be clear how important it is for you to be FTC compliant. 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Neither the author nor FTC Guardian, Inc. is endorsed by the Federal Trade Commission.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court calls dodgy science publisher &#8216;deceptive,&#8217; issues injunction By Tom Spears A U.S. court has ordered the world\u2019s biggest fake science publisher \u2014 a company that accepted a\u00a0ridiculous paper\u00a0on flying pigs submitted by this newspaper \u2014 to stop its \u201cdeceptive\u201d &hellip;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,2,12],"tags":[11,21,28,15,30],"class_list":["post-5836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceptive-advertising","category-ftc-claims","category-ftc-compliance","tag-ad-claims","tag-deceptive-advertising","tag-federal-trade-commission","tag-ftc-compliance","tag-truth-in-advertising"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5836"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5836\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}