Comment Re:I'm a subscriber and I can tell by the garbage (Score 2) 51
That's a really good example about the dogs, and a useful phrase to know, as well. Thanks!
That's a really good example about the dogs, and a useful phrase to know, as well. Thanks!
I would expect as much. Can anyone even make a good case for the existence of "Journals" -- as companies that get to sell access to research they didn't fund? I don't believe any scientists are getting rich off royalties from them, right?
They seem to me to be like a worse version of the record label racket. It seems like peer review itself should provide enough signal (drawing on the reputations of who decided to review it) to distinguish a Serious Paper that Really Matters from some slop fabricated by a conspiracy theorist in their basement. And surely the bandwidth costs etc. are so low as to be borne by the universities themselves, either by each of them self-hosting, or by funding a cooperative to host them all in one place. Or whatever Arxive is, of course.
So then why did so many plead guilty to that charge?
We'll have to ask them. I suspect denial of decent council.
And why couldn't Your Dear Leader have bothered to lift a finger to help these people?
Out of office by the time the Maoist junta got going?
had any kind of "vice-grip on power", why are they not capable of accomplishing anything?
The conservative view (at least nominally) is to let you manage your own life, with special support for those conceived, but as yet unborn.
when each individual reforms,
That's really not how this works, sorry. There will always be a spectrum, within and across individuals.
All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected, so there's still hope.