💼 Careercow Ashu Solo - Conspiratard, politician, and an atheist who's a mean one, Mr. Grinch

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Ashu Solo said:
"I’m an interdisciplinary researcher, electrical engineer, computer engineer, intelligent systems engineer, political and public policy engineer, mathematician, and entrepreneur. I’m also a progressive political writer, progressive activist, and civil rights activist. I’m currently a representative on the Saskatoon Cultural Diversity and Race Relations Committee, an advisory committee to Saskatoon City Council. I served honorably as an infantry officer and platoon commander understudy in the Cdn. Army Reserve." - Ashu Solo

“Most western political parties are in the pockets of the pro-Israel lobby composed of Zionist Jews, right-wing Christians, the military industrial complex, Muslim haters, and ignorant voters,” Solo said. “They cover up the truth and call anyone who tells the truth about Israel an ‘anti-Semite.’ David Ward is a courageous politician who is telling people the truth.”
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Ashu Solo is a loose associate of Jonathan "Dzon" Bishop and has been previously discussed in that thread as such. He lives in Saskatoon, Canada; he became a living meme for literally trying to steal Christmas via complaints about "Merry Christmas" signs violating his "human rights" as well as being offended by the mayor of his city reciting a Christian prayer.

His day job is a researcher, and he could likely go down in history as a rather successful man. However, he's made a joke out of himself by acting like an easily triggered jackass all over Canada and the Internet. A while back he was embroiled in a controversy over the above and received a backlash that he categorized as racist based on a handful of people sending racist tweets about him.
Human rights activist Ashu MG Solo said that David Ward MP’s comments were a welcome change from the Zionist biases that plague the western establishment. “Most western political parties are in the pockets of the pro-Israel lobby composed of Zionist Jews, right-wing Christians, the military industrial complex, Muslim haters, and ignorant voters,” Solo said. “They cover up the truth and call anyone who tells the truth about Israel an ‘anti-Semite.’ David Ward is a courageous politician who is telling people the truth.”
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The article is kaput, but I got the quote itself from @Ginger Piglet's post in Jonathan's thread.

News articles and interviews:
IGI Global (Archive)
Free Thought Blogs (Archive)
Storify (Archive)
CTV News Saskatoon (Archive)
OpEd News (Archive)
The Orbit (Archive)
National Post articles (Archive)
CBC News Saskatchewan (Archive)

Although I surprisingly had trouble finding his social media, he did have a (now defunct) Blogspot from 2007. (Archive)
I also managed to snag his address in a civil rights complaint to the late Sandra Finley, who was a chairwoman of the Green Party of Saskatchewan:
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He has other businesses and home-related addresses in the U.S., but they have yet to be found.
 
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I feel this is what companies look for when they hire HR personnel.
 
I recommend google image searching him and reposting the best memes about him. Like this one:
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edit: this twitter parody is pretty funny.
 
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Feline Darkmage said:
His birth name was Ashu Gupta. That's Indian so his parents were either Hindu or Muslim.
His full legal name is Ashu M. G. (Maverick Gupta) Solo
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Indian Muslims tend to not have their names in Hindi.
That guy is definitely Indian, he doesn't look like an Arab.
 
With Ashu Solo's long list of impressive academic and professional accomplishments, has anyone seen a Mr. Solo's claim of a university degree or even attending a university? Technical school? Seem strange?

Also, the very impressive list of Ashu Solo's "who's who," in the world: anyone can buy the awards. I'm thinking of buying a "who's who in the world," for my dog Sprocket, Although, the titles might be expensive, perhaps I'll settle for "who's who of the dog park."

The 2 publishers Solo and Bishop use are referred to as "vanity publishers," of "pay-to-play, or "predatory publishers." IGI Global, and Springer, fit nicely into those categories. Any coincidence Solo and Bishop's stuff is published by these publishers?

Here's a story about a guy that had a website exposing phony academic research, plagiarized papers, and sham conferences. He shut his website down but won't say exactly why. There are rumors his university, family and friends were harassed and threatened with lawsuits. Sound familiar?

http://www.nature.com/news/controversial-website-that-lists-predatory-publishers-shuts-down-1.21328

Here's an email Ashu Solo sent to the City Council. Solo was on a rampage because at some city event they said a prayer before the meal.
Is there a record for how many times you can say "your supporters," "you should be extremely ashamed of yourselves," "religious bigotry,"?

Then there's this, sound familiar:

" I will absolutely sue for damages and I’m sure the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission won’t like that too."
 
badgeless said:
With Ashu Solo's long list of impressive academic and professional accomplishments, has anyone seen a Mr. Solo's claim of a university degree or even attending a university? Technical school? Seem strange?

Also, the very impressive list of Ashu Solo's "who's who," in the world: anyone can buy the awards. I'm thinking of buying a "who's who in the world," for my dog Sprocket, Although, the titles might be expensive, perhaps I'll settle for "who's who of the dog park."

The 2 publishers Solo and Bishop use are referred to as "vanity publishers," of "pay-to-play, or "predatory publishers." IGI Global, and Springer, fit nicely into those categories. Any coincidence Solo and Bishop's stuff is published by these publishers?

Here's a story about a guy that had a website exposing phony academic research, plagiarized papers, and sham conferences. He shut his website down but won't say exactly why. There are rumors his university, family and friends were harassed and threatened with lawsuits. Sound familiar?

http://www.nature.com/news/controversial-website-that-lists-predatory-publishers-shuts-down-1.21328
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This is very true, and actually the rabbit hole on this is quite deep. Ashu is actually involved with another guy, Hamid Arabnia, and these two have been hosting an "Academic" conference over the course of the past decade that is noted for allowing research that should not have passed peer review. A key quote here is as follows:

"The issue with WORLDCOMP is that it has no reviews for the submitted
papers. It is the reason why several fake papers were published in
WORLDCOMP. Rather than addressing this matter, Jonathan Bishop is
raising unrelated issues and trying to sideline the issue. If Jonathan
Bishop or Hamid Arabnia or Ashu Solo have any moral or ethical or
professional values, we challenge them to produce all the reviews (after
masking the personal details) and the reviewers' details for all the
WORLDCOMP papers for all these years (we know that they cannot because
there are no reviews or reviewers).

Jonathan Bishop's goal is to somehow convince the researchers to
mobilize paper submissions to WORLDCOMP and receive his share of money
(registration fee) out of that. We think most of the researchers are
mature enough to understand on what is going on with WORLDCOMP and these
crooks."

It is not unreasonable to request the record of peer review and to duck other people trying to audit and check that it is happening calls into question WORLDCOMP's validity as a reputable scholarly institution. That would be if they were reputable to beginwith
WORLDCOMP, Ashu Solo and Jonathan Bishop. David Harrison also makes the allegation that WORLDCOMP is responsible for spam emails, harassing phonecalls to researchers and publishing research without going through the process of peer review.
Jonathan Bishop is a "hidden" member of WORLDCOMP's organizing committee
and he receives a share from WORLDCOMP's profits. He acts as a neutral
or impartial or third party researcher and defends WORLDCOMP and his
friend Hamid Arabnia whenever they are in trouble. He is also a close
friend of Ashu Solo (Google: Ashu Solo Christmas), the publicity chair
of WORLDCOMP, who makes harassing phone calls to WORLDCOMP's critiques
to and threaten them. The details of threatening calls received by Dr.
John Levine and Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff are at
https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf

Jonathan Bishop has papers in WORLDCOMP proceedings and some of these
papers were co-authored by Ashu Solo and the proceedings are co-edited
by Hamid Arabnia and Ashu Solo and those papers are, as usual, have not
reviewed. As an example, you can Google and find the paper "The New
Field of Network Politics" authored by Ashu Solo and Jonathan Bishop in
the 2011 International Conference on E-Learning, E-Business, Enterprise
Information Systems & E-Government, part of WORLDCOMP 2011.

Jonathan Bishop, Hamid Arabnia, and Ashu Solo failed to answer the
questions and challenges raised at:
https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 or
http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/73752-conferences-in-computer-science

The issue with WORLDCOMP is that it has no reviews for the submitted
papers. It is the reason why several fake papers were published in
WORLDCOMP. Rather than addressing this matter, Jonathan Bishop is
raising unrelated issues and trying to sideline the issue. If Jonathan
Bishop or Hamid Arabnia or Ashu Solo have any moral or ethical or
professional values, we challenge them to produce all the reviews (after
masking the personal details) and the reviewers' details for all the
WORLDCOMP papers for all these years (we know that they cannot because
there are no reviews or reviewers).

Jonathan Bishop's goal is to somehow convince the researchers to
mobilize paper submissions to WORLDCOMP and receive his share of money
(registration fee) out of that. We think most of the researchers are
mature enough to understand on what is going on with WORLDCOMP and these
crooks.

David Harrison
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http://archive.is/94pMm


WORLDCOMP is still a thing and even hosted a conference last year
http://archive.is/xhVCS

With WORLDCOMP, Ashu is officially noted as the "Publicity Chair'; a dubious title for an institution focused on scholarly advancement.
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There are a number of websites purporting information about WORLDCOMP, with interesting information. They make a number of interesting claims. It is important to note that there is an entire industry that hack researchers and fledgling professors rely on because of the "publish-or-perish" paradigm which exists in academia. There are other implications of this paradigm but they aren't important here.

Latest news:
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In 2014, the well-known fake conference organizer, Hamid Arabnia, has started another bogus conference "International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)" and its website is here . The venue of this fake conference is also Las Vegas. More conferences means more money from registration fee: Hamid Arabnia's hunger for money is worse than the hunger of a Fat Pig.

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A researcher, Dr. John Levine actually received threats from Ashu because he outted this scandal.

NOTE: On Feb 14, 2012, someone calling himself "Jonathan"
called me and threatened to sue me about the comment below,
saying "you'll lose your house." He claimed to be a lawyer,
but was oddly unwilling to provide an address or any other
information. Draw your own conclusions about whether this
is what real conference organizers do, keeping in mind that
it was six months after the conference. -John
On Feb 15, 2012, he called again at 11:30 PM and threatened
me again. But he doesn't seem to be a lawyer any more.
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Another Researcher Ralf Lammel also outted them on twitter and were emailed asking for offending material to be removed. Lammel changed his posts several times, and was asked to change them again and again. He finally sent out a request for any WORLDCOMP reviewer to reach out to him.

Here is the Email exchange and twitter postings

Here is an Email from John Peter I.

From:
Date: Sat, May 4, 2013 at 6:18 PM
Subject: Demand to remove your defamatory posting
To: rlaemmel@acm.org
Hi
We are upset to see your posting at https://twitter.com/reallynotabba/status/302889284724224001 about our WORLDCOMP. Your statements are clearly defamatory and we formally ask you to remove this posting within 24 hours from now. Else, we will follow legal actions against you and your institute. Consider this message highly time sensitive.
Sincerely
John

Here is my reply:

From: Ralf Laemmel
Date: Sun, May 5, 2013 at 12:16 AM
Subject: Re: Demand to remove your defamatory posting
To: johnpeter1@hushmail.com
Cc: rlaemmel@acm.org
Hi John,
Sorry if my tweet upset you,
I removed it,
Regards
Ralf

Here is an Email from John Peter III.

From:
Date: Wed, May 8, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Subject: Defamation of WORLDCOMP
To: softlang@uni-koblenz.de
Hello,
Thanks for removing your twitter posting on WORLDCOMP but you came up with another strategy to defame WORLDCOMP. Do not act too smart. I ask you to remove “WORLDCOMP” and any reference to it from all your twitter and other postings. We will directly contact your university officials and will also file a lawsuit unless you comply with our demand within 24 hours from now.
Sincerely
John Peter
Here is my reply:

From: Ralf Laemmel
Date: Thu, May 9, 2013 at 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Defamation of WORLDCOMP
To: johnpeter3@hushmail.com
Done.
Ralf
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http://professor-fish.blogspot.de/2013/05/a-note-on-bogusfake-conferences.html

Another site details the publication of fake papers which were published by Arabnia and Solo

2. Fake Papers in WORLDCOMP and their Details


2.1 First fake paper (the fake paper is available at the end of this webpage for download):

fake-paper-1's title: Knowledge Attribution to Intelligent Agents: An Approach Based on Logical Consequences
authors of fake-paper-1: Syed Nabeel Al-Ghari and Mustafa Al-Saawi
fake-paper-1 is published in proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'10) of WORLDCOMP 2010.
pages: 463-470
fake-paper-1.pdf is available at the end of this webpage for download


fake-paper-1 is copied from two genuine and already published research papers (they are named genuine-research-paper-1 and genuine-research-paper-2) freely available for download from proceedings of 2005 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05). Note that IJCAI is the most reputed and the oldest conference in this field.


Details of genuine-research-paper-1 from which fake-paper-1 is copied are:
title: Attribution of Knowledge to Artificial Agents and their Principals.
authors: Samir Chopra and Laurence White
proceedings: 2005 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05) .
pages: 1175-1180
genuine-research-paper-1 is here for download



Details of genuine-research-paper-2 from which fake-paper-1 is copied are:
title: AND/OR Cutset Conditioning
authors: Robert Mateescu and Rina Dechter
proceedings: 2005 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-05) .
pages: 230-235
genuine-research-paper-2 is here for download



2.2. Some highlights of fake-paper-1:

  1. Most matter (except figures) in fake-paper-1 is copied directly from genuine-research-paper-1 with some minor changes and addition of many meaningless statements. Some fake matter is added to connect the figures and tables with the rest of the content.

  2. All figures, tables and performance results in fake-paper-1 are directly copied from the genuine-research-paper-2.

  3. genuine-research-paper-1 and genuine-research-paper-2 talk about two entirely different and mutually exclusive topics. So, by joining the content, pictures, performance results and tables from these different papers has generated a meaningless paper, that is, fake-paper-1.

  4. genuine-research-paper-1 is listed as a reference in fake-paper-1 (reference # 3).

  5. genuine-research-paper-2 is listed as a reference in fake-paper-1 (reference # 10).

  6. Although the two genuine papers are listed as references in the fake paper, WORLDCOMP "reviewers" (if any), couldn't trace out that the submitted paper is a fake one. Ie, the "reviewers" (if any) failed to use this obvious clue to catch fake-paper-1.

  7. Most references in fake-paper-1 are wrongly cited (irrelevant citation or at irrelevant location or both) in the content/body of fake-paper-1.

  8. fake-paper-1 has many contradicting claims. E.g.,
    at line # 7 in page 6: “It proves that knowledge attribution to intelligent agents is always possible”.
    at line # 15 in page 6: “It confirms that knowledge attribution to intelligent agents is impossible.”

  9. fake-paper-1 contains many incomplete or meaningless statements and they are numerous.

  10. fake-paper-1 has no logical flow between successive paragraphs and successive sections (and in some cases, between successive statements) and the fake paper didn't convey any meaning (not even 0.0000001%) as a whole. The figures have no relation (not even 0.0000000000000000000000000001%) with the rest of the content.

  11. Hamid Arabnia submitted fake-paper-1 to DBLP and it is listed in DBLP.

  12. Hamid Arabnia is the primary Editor of IC-AI'10 Proceedings, in which fake-paper-1 is published.

  13. Hamid Arabnia stated in his acceptance letter dated April 4, 2010 to the author of fake-paper-1 (fake-paper-1-acceptance-letter.pdf is available at the end of this webpage): “Each paper was peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness.”

    He also stated "Only those authors whose papers have been accepted SUBJECT to MANDATORY changes will receive the compiled referees' report about THREE days after the date of this email - The referee reports would be sent to such authors by track chairs who arranged the evaluation of your paper or by the coordinator/staff of the conference."

    Why didn't Hamid Arabnia's "two experts” notice these horrible, damaging and serious issues in fake-paper-1 (really if there were any experts and reviewing)? We claim that there was no review and it is a fake conference.

    The author of fake-paper-1 never received any "compiled referees' report" stated by Hamid Arabnia. We believe that Hamid Arabnia stated the "compiled referees' report" just to trick the author by creating a feeling that there was a real review going on.


2.3. Second fake paper (the fake paper is available at the end of this webpage for download):

fake-paper-2's title: Extending XML Query Language by using Divide and Conditional-Join Queries
author of fake-paper-2: Muhammad Ismail Pasha
fake-paper-2 is accepted and published in proceedings of 2010 International Conference on e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, and e-Government (EEE'10) of WORLDCOMP 2010.
pages: 411-417
fake-paper-2.pdf is available at the end of this webpage for download.



fake-paper-2 is copied from another four genuine and already published research papers (they are named genuine-research-paper-3, genuine-research-paper-4, genuine-research-paper-5, genuine-research-paper-6). genuine-research-paper-3, genuine-research-paper-4 and genuine-research-paper-5 are from proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB 2007). genuine-research-paper-6 is from proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data (ACM SIGMOD 2004) and details of the conference are here.These two conferences are highly reputed and well-known in this field.


Details of genuine-research-paper-3 from which fake-paper-2 is copied are:
title: Extending XQuery with Window Functions.
authors: Irina Botan, Peter M. Fischer, Daniela Florescu.
pages: 75-86.
this paper can be freely downloaded here . If this link didn't work for any reason, Google the paper title.



Details of genuine-research-paper-4 from which fake-paper-2 is copied are:
title: Matching Twigs in Probabilistic XML
authors: Benny Kimelfeld and Yehoshua Sagiv.
pages: 27-38.
this paper can be freely downloaded here. If this link didn't work for any reason, Google the paper title


Details of genuine-research-paper-5 from which fake-paper-2 is copied are:
title: Extending Q-Grams to Estimate Selectivity of String Matching with Low Edit Distance.
authors: Hongrae Lee, Raymond T. Ng, Kyuseok Shim.
pages: 195-206
this paper can be freely downloaded here If this link didn't work for any reason, Google the paper title



Details of genuine-research-paper-6 from which fake-paper-2 is copied are:
title: Lazy Query Evaluation for Active XML.
authors: Serge Abiteboul, Omar Benjelloun, Bogdan Cautis, Ioana Manolescu, Tova Milo, Nicoleta Preda
this paper can be freely download at this author's website or at this author's website or at this author's website (If the links didn't work for any reason, contact the authors)



2.4. Some highlights of fake-paper-2:

  1. Most matter (except figures, tables, algorithms, performance results) in fake-paper-2 is copied from genuine-research-paper-3 with some minor changes and the addition of many meaningless statements. Some fake matter is added to connect the figures, tables and performance results with the rest of the content.

  2. Most figures, tables and performance results in fake-paper-2 are directly copied as follows:

    Figure 1 in fake-paper-2 is same as figure 3 in genuine-research-paper-3

    Figure 2 in fake-paper-2 is same as figure 10 in genuine-research-paper-5

    Figure 3 in fake-paper-2 is same as part of figure 1 in genuine-research-paper-4

    Figure 4 (in fact, it is an algorithm) in fake-paper-2 is same as figure 8 in genuine-research-paper-5

    Figure 7 in fake-paper-2 is same as figure 10 in genuine-research-paper-6

  3. genuine-research-paper-3, genuine-research-paper-4, genuine-research-paper-5 and genuine-research-paper-6 talk about mutually exclusive problems. So, by joining the content, pictures, tables, performance results and algorithms from these different papers has generated a meaningless paper, that is, fake-paper-2.

  4. genuine-research-paper-3 is listed as a reference in fake-paper-2 (reference # 9).

  5. genuine-research-paper-4 is listed as a reference in fake-paper-2 (reference # 12).

  6. genuine-research-paper-5 is listed as a reference in fake-paper-2 (reference # 4).

  7. genuine-research-paper-6 is listed as a reference in fake-paper-2 (reference # 5).

  8. Although the four genuine papers are listed as references in the fake paper, WORLDCOMP "reviewers" (if any), couldn't trace out that the submitted paper is a fake one. Ie, the "reviewers" (if any) failed to use this obvious clue to catch the fake paper.

  9. Most references in fake-paper-2 are wrongly cited (irrelevant citation or at irrelevant location or both) in the content of fake-paper-2.

  10. fake-paper-2 has many contradicting or misleading claims and statements. For example,
    the last four lines in page 1: “Previous work on extending SQL to support windows has identified different kinds of windows; sliding windows, and landmark windows [3]. The three types of windows differ in the way windows overlap”.

    The first line claims two windows. The second line claims three windows.

  11. fake-paper-2 contains many incomplete or meaningless statements and they are numerous.

  12. fake-paper-2 has no logical flow between successive paragraphs and successive sections (and in some cases, between successive statements) and the fake paper didn't convey any meaning (not even 0.0000001%) as a whole. The figures have no relation (not even 0.0000000000000000000000000001%) with the rest of the content.

  13. Hamid Arabnia submitted fake-paper-2 to DBLP and it is listed in DBLP.

  14. Hamid Arabnia is the primary Editor of EEE'10 Proceedings, in which fake-paper-2 is published.

  15. Hamid Arabnia stated in his acceptance letter dated June 1, 2010 to the author of fake-paper-2 (fake-paper-2-acceptance-letter.pdf is available at the end of this webpage): “Each paper was peer-reviewed by two experts in the field for originality, significance, clarity, impact, and soundness.”

    Hamid Arabnia also stated "The system shows that your paper is accepted without changes."

    Why didn't Hamid Arabnia's "two experts” notice these horrible, damaging and serious issues in fake-paper-2 (if there were any experts and review)? We once again claim that there was no review and it is a fake conference.

    Hamid Arabnia's statement "The system shows that your paper is accepted without changes." How can a fake paper be accepted without changes, if there is a review? We once again claim that there was no review and it is a fake conference.

    Hamid Arabnia was in a rush to collect the registration fee from the author of fake-paper-2 because the acceptance letter was sent on June 1 2010, and the conference date was very close (July 2010). Hamid Arabnia didn't want to waste any more time by putting the author on hold waiting for "reviews", as it was the case for fake-paper-1. This is why, Hamid Arabnia stated "The system shows that your paper is accepted without changes.", encouraging the author to pay the fee quickly.




3. Details of All Papers Submitted to 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'10) of WORLDCOMP 2010

On June 3, 2011, Hamid Arabnia sent an email to some authors of IC-AI'10 that contains all details of all submitted papers of IC-AI'10 (download the file, all-accepted-papers-of-IC-AI-10.pdf, available at the end of this webpage). It looks he has sent these details inadvertently or due to system error. This email includes the schedule of IC-AI'10 and most importantly, the details of each and every paper (paper number, paper title, authors of the paper, email addresses of authors, whether RRP or SRP (ie, category of acceptance), and optional comments for example if the author paid the fee or if the author cannot attend the conference and "review").

Some abbreviations Hamid Arabnia used:
RRP: Regular Research Paper
SRP: Short Research Paper

As you can visualize from this file, all submitted papers were accepted with most papers (98%) accepted as RRP. Except for comments for example "writeup suffers from poor english", no other review was conducted.
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http://archive.is/T0HFd

If you read through, you see the description of how they are fake and the actual papers, as referenced to the WORLDCOMP conference proceedings publication, linking these papers to the conference.

DEFAMATION and the cancellation of WORLDCOMP '13
The 2013 conference was cancelled because of heat from academics coming down on their heads.
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http://archive.is/rnR1p

There is so much more to this but I don't have time right now.
 
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