- Bronzebeard@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
This system was set up by Ghillaine, Epstein’s child acquisition specialist’s, father.
In case you needed insight into the heinous minds behind it
3 monthsOh nice, at a surface glance, that looks like a podcast very similar to Respect the Dead. Thank you for sharing!
- Voytrekk@sopuli.xyzEnglish3 months
They made more sense before the internet, when the transfer of information was not nearly as easy. With that being said, there is not much reason for them to exist anymore.
- 14th_cylon@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
once parasite like this finds a way to attach itself to a host, it is surprisingly hard to get rid off it. it is basically prisoner’s dilemma, if everyone leaves, you all won, but if it is just you who leave, you will lose compared to others. no one wants to be the first to leave and risk losing.
- hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish3 months
Just like lots more parasitic parts of society that depend on the network effect. Amazon, Facebook, political parties, uber etc etc.
- B0rax@feddit.orgEnglish3 months
As long as academias obsession with „if you didn’t publish there (for example Nature), your paper is not worth much“ is still going on, nothing will change.
- 3 months
The reason why journals exist is because they’re supposed to do filtering of bad papers. Whether they actually do that, of course, is another question. And whether it could be done in a (much) better way than it’s currently done is also an important question for academia.
We do need a rigorous review process. Just accepting substandard papers and mal attribution from a bum duck nowhere “university” is unacceptable.
That being said the current way of monetization and margins are also bad. And we might need higher standards.
- Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish3 months
This comic is especially relevant because the academics that hold out the longest are going to be the ones who are hurt the worst.
- plyth@feddit.orgEnglish3 months
It’s telling that academics are unable to break the dependency when publishing costs nothing and they could print their journals on demand for libraries should anybody need that.
The brightest people are trapped in network effects. To top it off, they all regularly meet at conferences and could allocate one session to decide which alternative method of publishing they want.
Anarchists and Socialists should be deeply worried.
