It was a complicated backstory. According to an interview between an observer of the predatory-publisher scene and the head honcho of the OMICS griftatorium (see page 7),
RP: The author of this paper also told me that, while he did email the paper to OMICS, he did not give OMICS permission to publish it, and indeed had been trying to get OMICS to take it down for some time. Are you able to give me any more background as to how and why the paper was published by OMICS, and say whether you agree with critics that it should not have been published?
Page 18 of that interview:
“I am the researcher, writer and editor [of the paper],” he replied to my enquiry. “The name is real and so is the story. I am an independent citizen researcher [and] I’ve been self-taught in biology, planetary science, earth science, quantum mechanics and the Holy Bible. The Bible came first, it made the other subjects more easy.”12
Williams explained that he had retired from his job in 2003 after a back injury, at which point, he said, he became an autodidact. Over the past nine years, he added, he has written a series of eighteen papers, which “range from planetary science, disease deletions and space science. They all tell a mankind story.” The Stonehenge paper, he added, is number two in the series.
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Curiously, Williams added that he himself objected to the publication of his paper in the OMICS’ journal, and had been trying to get the publisher to take it down for some time. “The web site that you read the paper on did not get my permission to post Stonehenge,” he told me. “It was e-mailed to them for a review, no permissions were given to the site to post it. I have emailed and telephoned OMICS asking them to remove my paper. So far, it is still there. I will legally deal with OMICS at a later time.”
