@TheMadPirate@detroitriotcity.com@Soy_Magnus@detroitriotcity.com@jeffcliff@shitposter.world plus the entire thing where the labor of performing the review is free (academics do it for free for the circular justification of "someone else will have to review my paper eventually too"), yet the publishing costs only increase, often still going behind a paywall. It's no wonder arxiv is so popular among younger academics and fields that are too young to have entrenched journals.
@dotnet@Soy_Magnus@TheMadPirate arxiv is great until you have actively dishonest people publishing ie it's kinda like zerohedge in the sense that the truth will be found on arxiv but so will a bunch of nonsense
@Soy_Magnus@jeffcliff The Peer Review Industry has been excessively profitable for ages now, mostly because paper are usually pay with Government Grants to Universities and Research Institutions, i.e. Taxpayer Money, ergo there is never a shortage of money to pay for "THE SCIENCE". Also, the Scientific Publications Industry is very concentrated and cartelized so the 3 or 4 companies that run it ( Springer-Verlag, Academic Press, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford Academic Press, Routledge and Elsevier ) tend to converge on the prices per page of the published papers ( which Governments happily paid through Grants ).
@jeffcliff interesting read. I didnt know academics were using ai to fraudulently publish fake articles nor that the "peer reviewed" industry was worth $30 billion btho i did know there was money in it
@realman543@Dicey@Soy_Magnus@dotnet@jeffcliff He is indeed certainly annoying. He belongs to the other side of the "Great Mastodon Wall" with its cronies, but for some reason he still likes to parade around this side of the fedi.
@Soy_Magnus@TheMadPirate@dotnet@jeffcliff just don't unfollow me because we have a difference of opinion if people deserve to have their limbs cut off or not. We can enjoy many lively discussion.
@Soy_Magnus@TheMadPirate@dotnet@jeffcliff can we really expect a man who entertain himself with gore videos to have ability to be informed about the need to take care of the people. Same with a religious fanatic they believe people are poor because it's gods choice that they suffer. Social darwinism (atheism) and religion is very similar on this particular point
@Dicey@TheMadPirate@dotnet@jeffcliff i have deep understanding of market value and self preservation. I could posit, how can i expect some retard who thinks just giving people resources will somehow help them provide for themselves but that point is moot. Ur a retarded commie who thinks i and anyone else whos productive deserves to pay for your life style
@Dicey@TheMadPirate@dotnet@jeffcliff that is communism lol. Those people sgould plan for the future but everyones been convinced to just sit back and let goverbment do it for them only to figure out theyre playimg you and indeed will not foot the bill. Thats the way the game plays out its not a bug in the system, its how the systems built to function lol
@jeffcliff@TheMadPirate@dotnet sometimes zerohedge is like that. Ive seen them promote trump and a larger welfare warfare state and then a few articles later they point out the tyranny of a larger state scope and lack of personal liberty. Its because they allow many people of many ideologies to publish their articles as long as theyre well articulated and researched. Ive evem seen pro marxist/socialist stuff its just partof allowing differing views thats why i like zerohedge
@Soy_Magnus@TheMadPirate@dotnet@jeffcliff I pity America being brainwashed to the point thinking taking care of its sick or disabled or people who lost their work something that can happen to anyone is communism/socialism.