[ RadSafe ] This "radiation journal" that probably doesn't exist

[Bjorn Cedervall]

The total number of papers by CB in this journal was eight.
 
My personal inititiave only,
 
Bjorn Cedervall
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> Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:18:23 -0600
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] This "radiation journal" that probably doesn't exist
>
> April 15
>
> Chris (Busby), I'm certain you have this "paper" of yours
> available electronically and can post it directly to RADSAFE. Why
> don't you do so and let us read it. No links, no citations, no
> shilly-shallying around, post it now so we can all read it.
>
> Steven Dapra
>
>
>
> At 04:13 PM 4/15/2011, you wrote:
>
> >I have cast a first look at your paper and also made a first comment
> >to it but that was not my question (see the subject line).
> >
> >My question was not a "schoolboy joke" - it was instead a question
> >that must be very easy for you to answer - about the status of
> >European Journal of Biology and Bioelectromagnetics". Does it exist?
> >As I understand it you are one of the founders of the journal.
> >
> >Three of your references in the ECRR 2010 book are from this
> >journal. How can people find those references?
> >Am I doing "schoolboy jokes" by asking this question?
> >
> >My personal initiative only,
> >
> >Bjorn Cedervall
> >PS. Thanks to the RadSafer who did some search and at least found a
> >frozen version of the journal but is there more than a fossil somewhere?
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> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: radsafe-bounces at agni.phys.iit.edu on behalf of Bjorn Cedervall
> > > Sent: Wed 13/04/2011 01:46
> > > To: RadSafers Forum; radsafe at agni.phys.iit.edu
> > > Subject: [ RadSafe ] This "radiation journal" that probably doesn't exist
> > >
> > >
> > > Yesterday I posted the following:
> > > "Notice - under 1.4 Editorial Boards (current) at:
> > > http://www.llrc.org/misc/subtopic/cvbusby.pdf
> > >
> > > Sort of interesting..."
> > >
> > >
> > > I am surprised that almost no Radsafer reacted - because:
> > >
> > > This "journal" (European Journal of Biology and
> > Bioelectromagnetics) was to my knowledge never found in scientific library.
> > > CB probably was a cofounder of the corresponding website.
> > > The "articles" were probably only peer reviewed by the authors
> > themselves - CB had at least about half a dozen articles there
> > (including uranium-DNA stuff). If I recall correctly - one was
> > coauthored with Roger Coghill - a phenomenon himself with Kirlian
> > photography and other "unusual stuff". The sample article of the
> > "journal" was by Roger Coghill BTW.
> > > Three of the CB articles have been used in the ECRR report (by
> > CB, Bertell et al.).
> > > The website ( http://www.ebab.eu.com/ ) seems to be gone - the
> > articles can according to my understanding not be found at
> > scientific libraries.
> > > CB:s CV states that he is a current editor of the "journal".
> > >
> > > Wakeford wrote about this mess as it was in Febr. 2008:
> > > "As a brief aside, it is of some interest that, possibly in an
> > effort to counter the criticism that he does not submit his work to
> > be technically assessed for suitability for publication in the
> > peerreviewed scientific literature, Chris Busby has recently had a
> > rash of papers 'published' in the 'web-journal', European Biology
> > and Bioelectromagnetics (www.ebab.eu.com) -a curious
> > > entity that was launched in 2005 and claims to publish
> > peer-reviewed papers, but which,
> > > after five issues of Volume 1, appears to have run out of steam
> > after Issue 1 of Volume 2
> > > in 2006. I shall let you be the judge of just what might be going
> > on here by pointing out
> > > that Busby, a member of the Editorial Board, is an author of no
> > fewer than eight papers in
> > > the currently existing (as of February 2008) six issues of the
> > journal! European Biology and
> > > Bioelectromagnetics raises another important matter that I cannot
> > pursue here, and that is the question of what should constitute the recognised scientific
> > literature and how any given
> > > journal can be inferred reasonably to be a part of this
> > literature. This is a complex question
> > > that goes to the heart of what the public might consider to be a
> > genuine scientific (rather than,
> > > say, political) publication."
> > >
> > > Source:
> > >
http://iopscience.iop.org/0952-4746/28/1/E03/pdf/0952-4746_28_1_E03.pdf