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The crisis in scientific publishing is at its core another area of tension between authoritarian institutionalism and #anarchy. The people who are calling for "rigorous peer review" and to uphold "high editorial standards" and such are basically at their core trying to uphold a hierarchical view of society. There's "the people who are authorities" and "the little people who must bow to authority". It's trash, in the same way that capitalism is trash and a state run by elected elites is trash.