Educational and informational journal organizations and the credit they earn.
Much like a sponsorship, Journals earn value and integrity based upon the nature of their publications. The debate I propose is "Is it the obligation of any and all serious researchers to find creditable, supportive, and healthy organizations to help publish and disseminate their research?". Plenty of fake or even "openly accessible" methods exist next to the scam organizations, while it takes some level of surface research, I would like to extend this debate to an additional topic. Should any and all organizations that fail to upheld integrity and productivity in the effectiveness of their rubric and quality of publications be entirely disavowed by academia as a whole?
My personal perspective is: "Yes, an organization that fails to properly vet or even review the work being published is likely to spend more time publishing filler and spam works. To avoid this academia needs to have a strict vetting policy on accepting new publications.". If information cannot be reasonably attained due to waterlogging of spam and other unhelpful publications, the likelihood of people who may be intelligent enough to use being capable of achieving progress in a reasonable manner drops. While the argument can be made this creates a buffer for people to not make hasty innovations and products without proper research and understanding, that is ultimately something that needs to be taught and should not be a vector or problem resolved by archival systems like journal publication organizations.
