When Scientists Run Journals
A strange editorial reveals numerous strategic blunders as scientists prove status does not equate to pragmatism
Kent Anderson
Song: “You’ll Be In My Heart”
Written as a lullaby, this song won an Oscar and supported a lovely, if forgotten, Disney hit.
Pondering Poynder’s Pronouncements
A journalist sympathetic to the OA movement throws in the towel, and enumerates his reasons — but misses some big issues
Do LLMs Solve Any Problems?
Do LLMs have any clear reason for existing? Is the danger in how they might keep us from developing our potential? And two updates.
Pay Us to Point Out Problems
Should authors pointing out problems have to pay APCs? Who has a policy on this?
Is This Our First Reviewer Mill?
Paying peer-reviewers would only add costs, invite corruption, and drive out the altruists
Friday Song: “The Chain”
A Fleetwood Mac classic covered by Nuno Bettencourt's family at an annual musical gathering.
This Pencis Is Proving Annoying
Another scammer pops up, and begins hammering academics with bogus prize offerings amid a set of related endeavors
How Vulnerable Is Wiley?
An analyst tracking Wiley thinks their goose may be cooked, but their problems are just a symptom of a bigger mistake
Preprints Didn’t Speed Vaccines
NLM staff continue to lie to themselves about preprints, avoiding looking at the downsides head-on