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"'Neuroskeptic' of Discover magazine found four allegedly peer-reviewed science journals happy to accept a paper on Star Wars 'midi-chlorians', based on Wikipedia's mitochondria entry (after a quick search-and-replace and thesaurus shuffling), peppered with references to the Force, Darth Plagueis of the Sith, etc., and signed as by Dr Lucas McGeorge and Dr Annette Kin. Of nine targeted journals, five rejected this nonsense (full marks to JSM Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for 'The authors have neglected to add the following references: Lucas et al., 1977, Palpatine et al., 1980, and Calrissian et al., 1983'); three published the paper; one accepted it but wanted a $360 publication fee which was not forthcoming." -- Paul Barnett in David Langford's Ansible #361, 2017-08-01, describing/citing "Predatory Journals Hit By 'Star Wars' Sting", Discover, 2017-07-22 [the Ansible description is snappier but the Discover original has additional amusing details. The fake paper itself is now on Scribd, but I haven't read it yet because Scribd doesn't seem to want to play nicely with my browsers.]