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"Publish or perish" is the most idiotic, damaging idea ever produced by modern academia. It's symptomatic of a degenerate system. If those academics had any gu
by fractallyte 6y ago
"Publish or perish" is the most idiotic, damaging idea ever produced by modern academia. It's symptomatic of a degenerate system.
If those academics had any guts, they would boycott their precious journals and strike out in a different, better direction.
They're the ones perpetuating the system, just as much as the journals themselves. It's not parasitic, it's symbiotic.
- dariosalvi78 6y agoNobody benefits from this system except publishers. Academics hate it, but publications is the way they are measured by public institutions for, e.g., grants, or when being hired. There's no symbiosis, it has evolved in this way mostly because of decisions taken by non-academics (ministries, governments, administrative staff etc.) and nobody knows how to get out of it.
- fractallyte 6y agoTo avoid redundancy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650788 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25650788