What is a strategy against it?
Endward23
joined 10 months ago
The whole system is so messed up on multiple levels. You not only have to publish some result that is correct (true) but it also has to be positive (support your hypothesis) and sufficiently "important " to your field or else your whole career is at risk.
The publication or reproduction crises comes for a reason.
In my opinion, the flaws of the current system are well-documented and even understand to a degree. The actuall problem is to come up with a new system. This system has to be objectiv and fair and must measure the quality of scientists' work.
Its not a perfect metric, but one that allows us to make a quantitative comparison.
The image that some unserious magazines pushed the main part of the fake papers is not sattled by research as I have read long ago. Some scientometrists has checked out and find out that even many of the "small magazines" use regular peer review. Is actuall a small minority of magazines which let them be paid to publish "science spam".
As far as I read, its more an opinioned essay about the political influence of some silicon vally cooperations. I think, these "companies will be more important than states"-thing is over. We all has become witnesses for the importance of policies on a state level in the last decade. It's not over for them, like it or not.
Now that we have entered a new period of political tension at the global level, I think the role of states will be even more important. An interesting side note: the institution of the European Union has failed to create a strategy to respond to the current war in Ukraine. So, the idea of super-national institutions like the EU or whatever, seems unlikely to be a solution to the problem of global coordination and cooperation as humanity. Again, like it or dislike it. I'm pretty sure many international observers has already note this and drawt their conclusions.
It remembered me these study about NDE I heared from.
Yet againt. More power for the EU central gouverment and their officials and authorities. I don't see a change in favour of the usual citizen, here.