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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @softglitter2d OP 27 Dec \ parent \ on: Value-for-value is the way: NO MORE COPYRIGHT meta
Makes me really sad every time I hear this kind of cases, particularly academics. I tried to publish in universities (made one) but then I realized I'm going to accomplish my goals better writing in blogs rather than papers because I have friends that I know they write >100 papers and they see no revenue from that.
oh no, papers are 0 revenue. Papers, you do dark magic rituals and sell your kidney just to get them accepted and printed. Academic journals rely on free labor from editors (no pay usually), authors (0 pay, always), reviewers (0 pay, sometimes a discount coupon from the publisher). And then they charge uni libraries literal thousands for subscriptions.
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Oh God, didn't know this one. Once again, this proves the leave the science to scientists is blatant bullshit.
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It is. This setup makes sure that there's little to no critical thinking in academia; the reviewers will stop it ("this is not the state of the science"), the editors will stop it (by giving it to reviewers they know will say what they want them to say), the publishers will reject it if it's too controversial.
If you write something that pisses on an established orthodoxy, the reviewers will tear you apart. If you write something that tries to combine two things, they'll give it to two reviewers from these different sides, and each will tear up the part of the other.
So academia encourages people to run with what they usually run with, and PhD candidates and students have to kiss up to these same professors, who ill control them in just the same way. Those are fiefdoms, quite literally, and success comes through fealty to the prince(s).
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