Spears: Free advice for back-to-school researchers: Don't join a suckers list

Academics who deal even once with “predatory” publishers of fake science news may join a suckers list that is passed around by scammers, a Citizen experiment has shown.
It’s a surprising development from an experiment that began as a look at shady conferences, organized to fleece junior academics. (Researchers pay fees in the $1,000 range in the hope that attending will help their careers, but the content is worthless.)
To test some conferences, we submitted a ri