The Areas of My Expertise

Ever since I began publishing in medical journals, I have been receiving bizarre invitations to submit articles, or otherwise contribute to -- let's call them "interesting" -- journals. These publications obviously have no idea about my scholarly chops, but that does not keep them from praising my work and explaining that I am just the right person to contribute whatever it is they are requesting -- an article, a commentary, joining the editorial board, peer review. I usually just ignore and delete these solicitations, but now and then they are sufficiently "interesting" to share. As in this one, that arrived today:

Dear Lubet S, 

Hope you are good. 

I am reaching out you about review of the following manuscript. Your comments will be helpful to increase the quality of the manuscript and we can provide error free information to the scientific community.

Title of the manuscript: Public policy support for Agroecology in Latin America: Lessons and Perspectives

Journal Name: Global Journal of Ecology

Please let us know your willingness to review this manuscript without delay.

Your rapid response and support will be highly solicited.

Best Regards,

Now, I have published on a broad range of subjects in medical, social science, and humanities journals, not to mention law reviews, but I have not once ever published anything remotely connected to agroecology in Latin America, or anywhere else.

For the record: I am pleased to do peer reviews, as I have often done, on antebellum and old west history, ethnography reforms, ME/CFS literature, legal ethics, and anything else reasonably in my wheelhouse. But I am no polymath, and I draw the line far away from agroecology.

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[JTK]

Paging Jeffrey Beall. Jeffrey Beall, please pick up any of the white courtesy phones.