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Perhaps this is my bias showing, but if you read through this whole interaction [1,2,3], Kent Anderson comes across as a real dick, while both Yann LeCun and Ge
by StefanKarpinski 9y ago
Perhaps this is my bias showing, but if you read through this whole interaction [1,2,3], Kent Anderson comes across as a real dick, while both Yann LeCun and George Monbiot come across as pretty reasonable albeit ticked off about academic publishing (imo quite rightfully).
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academ...
[2] https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/09/01/uninformed-unhinged-and-unfair-the-monbiot-rant/ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2011/09/01/uninformed-un...
[3] https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-journal/ https://blogs.harvard.edu/pamphlet/2012/03/06/an-efficient-j...
- Vinnl 9y agoI often feel the same, although like you, I'm afraid it might have to do with my bias. The Scholarly Kitchen is an interesting place to catch up with the views of the publishers, but interactions like this and articles like most of Joe Esposito's don't really help with the image of "evil Elsevier et al"...