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Because if you don't publish in academia, you might as well be dead. And the terms for most places to publish are similar. It's a racket.
by kelnos 3mo ago
Because if you don't publish in academia, you might as well be dead. And the terms for most places to publish are similar.
It's a racket.
- bonoboTP 3mo agoOk, then next question is why are you in academia? To share knowledge with humanity, bring the Promethean light to the mortals or something I guess. But then if they use it for productive things that make money, that's too smelly, that's too practical, too dirty, or what?
- darkwater 3mo agoWhat a petty view of others you have :( What should they do then? Just shrug and move on, the machine must continue to grind no matter what? Why there is always this request for 100% purity if you dare to criticize the system or part of it?
- avereveard 3mo agoGrants.They want the juicy grants and complain of the strings attached. Guess the single strongest predictor of paper in field per year?
- inigyou 3mo agoYou really think a researcher is just a pointless intermediary in shovelling money from the government to the publishing rackets?
- avereveard 3mo agothat was a big jump from what I said. and what I said was that research lives off grants so researcher can't really come back and cry about strings attached to grants. ofc the problem is faceted, as grant go to published authors with track record, creating a publishing mafia, but everything rotates around the cashflow. but you want sweet grant money, you play the game by the rules. researcher that don't want to play the grant game can go and find a VC to subsidy product creation