07-20-2025, 07:00 AM
A scientific journal editorial board member has been sacked after he dared to complain about the qualifications (or lack thereof) of a newly appointed lead editor, Asiyah D. Franklin. He correctly noted that Franklin's regionally accredited Walden degree came from "an internet school." Article author Strom pulled no punches, twice calling it a "diploma mill" degree.
A notorious plagiarist urged that we should judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. That raises a deeper question: does the school make the student or does the student make the school?
A notorious plagiarist urged that we should judge people by the content of their character and not the color of their skin. That raises a deeper question: does the school make the student or does the student make the school?
Quote:The Corruption of Scientific Journals Continues Apace
David Strom 1:00 PM | July 19, 2025
... Springer-Nature's journal dedicated to obstetrics is called "Pregnancy and Childbirth," and it just hired a woman with no research experience and credentials from an online university to be the Lead Editor. She has not published a single research paper, and the thesis she wrote to get her diploma mill Ph.D. was entirely on racism, not pregnancy or childbirth.
When a member of Springer-Nature's Editorial Board brought this fact up and pointed out that her sole qualification was that she was a black woman, they relieved him of his duties.
[Greg J.] Marchand is an obstetrician who also teaches at medical schools. He has invented several surgical techniques, so he knows a thing or two about pregnancy and childbirth. The new "Lead Editor?" Her "research" is in DEI.
... But Franklin has no research experience at all, and the idea that she would make a competent editor of a prestigious journal is absurd. A recent Ph.D. from an online diploma mill is only valuable because Springer Nature wanted to put a black woman as the face of the journal. That's it.