Nice try FBI. You aren’t fooling me.

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I’m arguing that the solution to your concern is that the corporation and profit aspects be removed. The reason I prefer this angle is because science emphasizes the need to remove all or as much bias as possible and economic incentives inevitably induce bias’ and restrictions that increase the problems I’ve already pointed out earlier.

The question of whether peer reviewers ought to be paid and how is a complex one that has many ethical considerations on either side of the argument. I strongly recommend you research this debate yourself if you are interested in the subject.

Eh, it’s not as bad as it sounds TBH. Paid reviewers would have ethical and economic pressures that hinder their effectiveness. Non-specialists in the same field would end up responsible for reviews of articles they are only rudimentarily familiar with (think astrophycisists working on exoplanet formation and composition having to review papers on black hole implications for dark energy. They ‘could’ but are not the best qualified to do so). Needing to review enough papers to earn a living means this dilution multiplied 100-fold to get enough done.

With volunteering at least scientists that are interested in that paper’s topic, and hence are likely a specialist in it, are the ones looking at it and doing so at their leisure instead of needing to do 100 by weeks end to put food on their table.

Personally, I think all privatization involved should be removed. Volunteer reviewers to public non-profit journals paid either by donations or tax dollars and freely accessible to all.

Not typically, no. There have been exceptions ofc, but peer reviewing is typically volunteer.

They are ‘representatives’. The US President or relevant diplomat literally speak for the country which is why the language is appropriate. Like it or not, your leader (and their delegates) speaks for you in an official capacity which is what that kind of dialogue describes. The extra specificity you desire is superfluous and actually subtracts from truly describing what is going on.

Being awarded with a Medal of Honour by Biden? No. Biden isn’t giving you a datta-boy. The entire nation is expressing their gratitude. Is it fair that an entire nation gets marred by 1 individual’s buffoonery (exhibit A: Trump’s entire first term)? No. Accurate? Yes (see the next 4 years).

if editors did a hint of work with all the money

Exactly. Why do authors need to pay for review/publication but the reviewers are volunteer and the journals paywalled? There is a fundamental mismatch between who gets vs deserves the money.

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A group of around 50 activists were arrested volunteered for the first wave of deportations in a couple months.

Enjoy the due process while it lasts because pretty soon ‘arrested’ will be for the lucky. President ‘can we violently disperse a crowd so my photo op is not delayed?’ is almost here.

Yeah, this one’s a keeper. 🤣

I regret that I have but 1 upvote to give this.

That bee stings

I want to know what the name of the music playing in the background while Syr and Bell are on the bridge and she’s talking about wanting an Odr (20:27 it starts).

Whether we need to create a new system that is designed to catch fraud prior to publication is a whole different question

That system already exists. It’s what replication studies are for. Whether we desperately need to massively bolster the amount of replication studies done is the question, and the answer is ‘yes’.

I’m guessing Audio, but no clue.

They cut the sidewalls out of 2 Al pie-plates, let the floors overlap, and prayed the crust didn’t leak.

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Woof, this one’s ruff

“We advance an alternative view: the modern airplane reflects a social microcosm of class-based society, making inequality salient to passengers through both the physical design of the plane (the presence of a first class cabin) and, more subtly, the boarding procedure (whether economy passengers must pass through the first class cabin),”

So dysfunction on planes is a possible indicator people are ready to get violent in society as a whole due to its inequalities being made more obvious onboard. Really starting to think I’m going to see a NA revolution in my lifetime but I’ll be too old to ‘enjoy’ it.

Dress uniform photo would have worked better

This is straight up horrible. LOL, party goes on a mission to obtain a cure for petrification to save a bunch of statues only to discover that they are all a bunch of corpses because the villain is just that big of an asshole.