Hmm, it's an interesting theory. You might be right. There seems to be a simple way to verify this though. So here is a suggestion to all readers: You can "write" a paper in 5 seconds, just go to http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/. Then submit it to any of WSEAS conferences, and see whether it will get in.

Possible? To advance in academia, you need to publish. Real science journals and conferences are competitive and original quality research is tough. Takes talent and a lot of work. That naturally creates demand for venues where acceptance criteria are, let's say, a bit more relaxed. So you write a "paper", send it to this "conference", get an acceptance letter and an invitation to attend, this will get you money from the university for the expenses, you pay the registration fee to the conference organizers, and everyone's happy --- except for the taxpayers, of course. These conferences often actually take place, but if you like to travel, hey it's even better. In good schools, various review boards are familiar with such operations, and having a "publication" from one of those venues could fatally tarnish a person's career. But in schools with weaker research programs, administrators are not sufficiently aware of this, or perhaps sometimes they don't care. Don't be too hard on academia though. Any area of human activity has a dark, sweaty, filthy underbelly. Science is no different.