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by return0 4477 days ago
PubPeer explains how their commenters helped identify some fraud there: http://blog.pubpeer.com/?p=117

So what's the role of Nature group here? Print colourful printouts of sloppily-reviewed papers? I feel somehow these "publishers" (basically, they're just glorified PDF repositories) aren't really worth the money they're getting.