4 ms·

Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model

76 points by tingletech 7y ago

Zenst 7y ago
Would anybody be upset about that? Well, apart from those that profit from such publishing models, I can't think or know of anybody else. But I'm open to input upon that as always.
- isaacgreyed 7y ago
  Likely many older academics, just from the inertia.
WorldPeas 7y ago
Amen.
Der_Einzige 7y ago
Maybe it can also kill for-profit health care. A person can dream...
- fithisux 7y ago
  We share the same dream then :-)
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  There will always be the ability to buy the best care available.
mjs33 7y ago
Good!
hilbert42 7y ago
"Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model." If good things could come out of Covid-19 then this along with a ten to one-hundredfold speed up in the development of vaccines etc. ought to be among them. That said, I've been around too long to know that a small percentage of the population are just too greedy to let that happen. Even if laws were rushed in to mandate that whilst it's fresh in everyone's mind, sooner or later they'll be usurped in the same way that late-19th Century anti-monopoly laws have been nuked these days. Even though these old laws have already been on the statutes for over a century, these days no lawmaker or bureaucrat has the gumption or guts to enforce them against Big Tech. If such a proposal were to ever get off the ground then tragically the same would happen all over again.
fithisux 7y ago
At last
shock 7y ago
> The data surrounding the biology, epidemiology and clinical characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus [the virus causing the current outbreak] have been growing daily, with more than 400 articles listed in PubMed. After reading dozens of media articles about this virus I still didn't find out what kills it reliably, except, maybe, alcohol. What about temperatures? What type of alcohol? Other disinfectants like chlorine? The media seems to be void of these details and mostly fuels worry and panic.

4 ms·

Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model

76 points by tingletech 7y ago

Zenst 7y ago
Would anybody be upset about that? Well, apart from those that profit from such publishing models, I can't think or know of anybody else. But I'm open to input upon that as always.
- isaacgreyed 7y ago
  Likely many older academics, just from the inertia.
WorldPeas 7y ago
Amen.
Der_Einzige 7y ago
Maybe it can also kill for-profit health care. A person can dream...
- fithisux 7y ago
  We share the same dream then :-)
- Fjolsvith 7y ago
  There will always be the ability to buy the best care available.
mjs33 7y ago
Good!
hilbert42 7y ago
"Covid-19 could kill the for-profit science publishing model." If good things could come out of Covid-19 then this along with a ten to one-hundredfold speed up in the development of vaccines etc. ought to be among them. That said, I've been around too long to know that a small percentage of the population are just too greedy to let that happen. Even if laws were rushed in to mandate that whilst it's fresh in everyone's mind, sooner or later they'll be usurped in the same way that late-19th Century anti-monopoly laws have been nuked these days. Even though these old laws have already been on the statutes for over a century, these days no lawmaker or bureaucrat has the gumption or guts to enforce them against Big Tech. If such a proposal were to ever get off the ground then tragically the same would happen all over again.
fithisux 7y ago
At last
shock 7y ago
> The data surrounding the biology, epidemiology and clinical characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 virus [the virus causing the current outbreak] have been growing daily, with more than 400 articles listed in PubMed. After reading dozens of media articles about this virus I still didn't find out what kills it reliably, except, maybe, alcohol. What about temperatures? What type of alcohol? Other disinfectants like chlorine? The media seems to be void of these details and mostly fuels worry and panic.