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all the best to the families. but this makes me furious at how research is done. everyone pays high tuition and dont think about it. just being glad their fam
by gcb0 12y ago
all the best to the families. but this makes me furious at how research is done.
everyone pays high tuition and dont think about it. just being glad their families can afford. but you (everyone here probably) is fostering this. expensive pedigree universities are the ones that create such toxic environment for open research.
very similar to this was already documented in the "Lorenzo's oil" book/film. lets hope this time we learn the lesson. (yeah, high hopes of anyone here not favoring a Stanford student but anyway ...i have no idea how even start to break this vicious circle that promote inefficient research in that way... maybe killing patents will be the light?)
- QuantumChaos 12y agoI see two separate phenomena. The article describes researchers being rewarded for their publications, and therefore not sharing data with their competitors, who could create a publication with that data which the researcher who shared the data would get no credit for. You are describing people favoring graduates from top universities, which therefore charge higher tuition since their degrees are more valuable. I can't see any relationship between these two things, maybe you can clarify.
- gcb0 12y agothe top universities are top universities because of what? the standard metric is number of published papers. So a university to on the top have to play by those rules. and we keeping regarding them as the top are by consequence valuing those rules. the hypocrisy has to end somewhere. We can't keep up voting those articles that point the problems with academic publishing while giving priority to hire from the institutions that maintain that status quo.