Pay Us to Point Out Problems
Should authors pointing out problems have to pay APCs? Who has a policy on this?
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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
Friday Song: “She Blinded Me With Science”
A quirky 1980s hit was the work of a serious musician with a raft of interesting credits
More From the Insurrectionists
Oligarchs continue to push for an overthrow of the scholarly governance system that restrains them
Herd Immunity & Herd Mentality
Kids are vulnerable to MMR again due to vaccine misinformation, while a scientist challenges the herd mentality around "open"
Who Will Investigate AI Hoaxes?
A new LLM tool to generate data allows researchers to fake studies, and we're not anywhere near ready for it