Published March 14, 2023 | Version v1
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Left-Handed Mothers and LGBTQ+ Child Acceptance in Singapore: Exploring the Link through Early Life Rejection

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This is a fake paper with fabricated methodology and results that we deliberately submitted to the Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, to prove that they are a predatory journal with seriously low peer-review standards, and that publishes extremely low quality papers. 

The full context and rationale for publishing the fake journal, as well as an exhaustive list of false and highly questionable research methodology, presentation, and citations are published on our website's article: https://heckinunicorn.com/blogs/heckin-unicorn-blog/anti-lgbtq-fake-science-is-spreading-in-singapore

We've also created a video on this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CxCK9c2rUjI/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Among other things, the authors of the paper are also completely fabricated, with zero online presence, and who claim to work for a university that does not exist. The journal's editors did zero background checks on authors — a simple Google would reveal that the authors and their university do not exist.

Half of all citations in this paper are fabricated, but none of the peer reviewers noticed it or questioned it. Our "methodology" includes knocking on doors to recruit participants, who somehow formed an equal sample of 100 left-handed and 100 right-handed mothers, and none of the peer reviewers questioned our recruitment methodology, or how we could find so many left-handed mothers even though only about 10% of people are left-handed.

Most egregiously, the Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science lied about the dates they received our manuscript, and the duration of the peer review process. We sent the fake paper to them on 5 March 2023, and it got accepted 5 days later on 10 March 2023. However, the Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science lied that they received the paper 2 months earlier on 8 January 2023, just to make the peer review process seem like it took 2 months instead of 5 days. 

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Submitted
2023-03-05
Actual submission date
Accepted
2023-03-10
Accepted after "peer review"