smallworlnd on Nostr: What you're talking about is only one symptom of the bigger and more complex issue ...
What you're talking about is only one symptom of the bigger and more complex issue with the parasitic science publishing industry.
They triple-dip by 1) not funding any of the research, 2) not paying experts for their peer review work and 3) paywall publications, which means institutions have to pay all over again to have access to the work done by their own researchers. Worse yet is they've managed to become the de facto benchmark that funding agencies completely rely on as sole indicator of research performance.
The stranglehold runs very deep, and censorship is just one of the many powers that have a accrued to the few giant players over the past decades.
They triple-dip by 1) not funding any of the research, 2) not paying experts for their peer review work and 3) paywall publications, which means institutions have to pay all over again to have access to the work done by their own researchers. Worse yet is they've managed to become the de facto benchmark that funding agencies completely rely on as sole indicator of research performance.
The stranglehold runs very deep, and censorship is just one of the many powers that have a accrued to the few giant players over the past decades.