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Nature saying the quiet part out loud.
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
Rules
This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Isn't it a bit ridiculous for researchers to have to pay a publisher to publish the content that they themselves make money from?
They're double dipping, and also triple dipping with the peer reviews done on a volunteer basis.
A racket, I say.
I'm still not sure, what exactly the journals are actually doing.
Like, in all seriousness, what service do they provide? Just hosting the platform for anonymized reviews and basically a blog for the actual articles? That should cost maybe a few millions each year, yet this sector makes billions in revenue.
Gatekeeping As A Service.
Eeeghh. Such parasites.