Do We Really Need More Controversial Ideas?: A new journal encourages scholars to share their most dangerous and tasteless thoughts.

OPEN access publishing; SCHOLARLY peer review; VIOLENCE; ANIMALS; CRIMINALS; COMA; INTERNET; ANONYMS & pseudonyms

The article offers information on the open access and peer-reviewed publication "The Journal of Controversial Ideas." Topics discussed include the highlights of the first issue of the periodical such as committing violence to save animals and putting criminals in medically induced comas, claims of the journal on the limitations imposed by the Internet to academic work, and reason why the journal allows writers to use pseudonyms.