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Failure: The Blog 
September 2017
- A Reverse April Fool's Day
- An Undertaker's Necessary Creation
- Ioannis Yannas And His Accidental Discovery
- Nikola Tesla Lied To Pay His Bills
August 2017
- Green Eggs And Gambling
- The Dog That Sits On Editorial Boards
- A Failure Event Known As inX3
- How To "Unbrand" Yourself
- Stephen Hawking Won't Get A Voice Upgrade
July 2017
- Dying Stars Give Us Paint
- Worcestershire Sauce Wasn't A Hit At First
- Why Some Video Games Fail
- We Have The Internet Because of Fear of Failure
- The Mistake That Created The Whopper Jr.
June 2017
- Ben Schwartz Took Risks
- Robert Sternberg Failed His Psychology Class
- Sony Began With A Rice Cooker That Burned Rice
- Jay Coughlan Success Started With Prison
- Tai Lopez's Rags To Riches Story
May 2017
- Ways To Turn Those Failures Around
- Aaron Swenson Believes In Failure
- Scientific Discovery Requires Failure
- Millennials Need To Learn To Fail
- Gareth Edwards Feared Failure
April 2017
The Dog That Sits On Editorial Boards
You would think finding out that a dog sits on several editorial boards would be a massive failure, at least on the owners part, right?
Wrong. Owner, Mike Daube, professor of health policy at Australia’s Curtin University, initially did it as a joke. The dog, Ollie, has very some eyebrow-raising interests such as “the benefits of abdominal massage for medium-sized canines.” Though it’s pretty funny, Daube decided he would use this time to not only get some laughs, but also take a stance on a large issue that goes unnoticed: shady journals.
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“Every academic gets several of these emails a day, from sham journals,” he said. “They’re trying to take advantage of gullible younger academics, gullible researchers” who want more publications to add to their CVs. These journals may look prestigious, but they charge researchers to publish and don’t check credentials or peer review articles. And this is precisely how a dog could make it onto their editorial boards.”
Daube has used this failure successfully to bring about awareness!
