Fear and loathing - Ethics and Integrity Specialist Frontiers Employee Review

- Frontiers is using massive email campaigns to recruit potential authors and is criticized for spamming. - Interns are recruited for a six month period and expected to write 200 emails a day, canvassing academics to submit papers to this for-profit open access publisher. - Frontiers intimidate their interns. After their internship ends, they are expected not to work or be otherwise involved in science publishing for at least one year. - The employees are instructed how to reply to annoyed academics and how to counter criticism of Frontiers peculiar peer review model. - They are also instructed to lie about the article rejection rate, which is not 20% as officially claimed, but 10%.