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It's not cynism. The disagreement about authorship apparently was motivated by someone in the original team being pushed aside to open a slot for the well conne

by Qem 3y ago

It's not cynism. The disagreement about authorship apparently was motivated by someone in the original team being pushed aside to open a slot for the well connected "10k citations" guy. It's a old problem academia still fails to address. See: https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3002184 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-colonial_science https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-colonial_science

Facemelters 3y ago
No one knows if this version of events is true
- Qem 3y ago
  Indeed. But if further investigation reveals the situation to be what it appears to be, this would follow a long list of similar occurrences, the likes of César Lattes and Jocelyn Bell.