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HOW TODAY'S SCIENTISTS CHANGED - FAME AND MONEY ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH "We used to want to understand nature, but now our main concern is to understand how to publish in Nature!" Àlex Gómez-Marín https://lnkd.in/ghah5NDy OVERVIEW "Scientific publishing has been gamed to advance scientists’ careers, not knowledge. While science communication has turned into a means of public indoctrination. In this essay, Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that real experts don’t know “the truth,” and that we should become pilgrims towards the unknown rather than the squatters of the broken records of ideological mantras." SCIENCE IS IN TROUBLE "The problem comes from within and from without. We don’t seem to live in a world where people can “trust the experts” anymore. Something is killing science softly. What is it, how is it happening, and why? Despite relentless technological innovation, scientific progress is stalling compared to the prodigious revolutions in understanding that our ancestors provided us a century ago." HUNGER GAMES "I believe the key lies in the way we make science public. This entails a double-stranded path: 1. the inner route of publishing scientific results 2. and the outer route of publicizing them. First, science publishing has become a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme at the expense of taxpayers and scientists themselves. Top journals charge obscene fees to publish results already paid for by those taxpayers in the form of grants, while we peer-review there “for free”. The so-called “scientific community” is more of a euphemism for an actual scientific hierarchy of castes. It’s the HUNGER GAMES OF ACADEMIA: PUBLISH OR/AND PERISH. Second, science journalism has become a significant part of the problem it was supposed to be a solution to. There are, no doubt, great communicators of various sorts in the media landscape but some of the most notorious ones have steadfastly slanted towards promoting what could be called “the public misunderstanding of science”. Such professionals do not exemplify what they profess. They substitute certitude for curiosity. They conflate their myopic and dogmatic views of science with “the science”. EPILOGUE "Scientism is more dangerous than pseudoscience because it is an inside job. We also need true collegiality, individual bravery, and “fuck-you money”." MY2CENTS Private companies have taken over science, by offering products made by "famous scientists" despite the emptiness of their theories. An example is Yann LeCun chief ai scientist at Meta, who published many papers on ai, but the company products have no INTELLIGENCE at all. LINKS TYPICAL EXAMPLE OF YANN LECUN BEING COMPLETELY OUT OF HIS DEPTH - HE ADMITS HE HAS AGAIN NO IDEA https://lnkd.in/dsamr7C9 PSEUDO AI - WHY PEOPLE "BELIEVE IN FALSE PROPHETS LIKE KNOWN AI GURUS" https://lnkd.in/eMujcUn4 SCIENTISM - IGNORING METAPHYSICS IS LIKE DENYING THE EXISTENCE AND NECESSITY OF PARENTS https://lnkd.in/evgem5qg https://lnkd.in/giaYZNGd

Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Aging, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process: https://lnkd.in/ej6RADdw

Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Aging, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process: https://lnkd.in/ej6RADdw

Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Aging, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process: https://lnkd.in/ej6RADdw

Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Aging, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process: https://lnkd.in/ej6RADdw

Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Aging, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process: https://lnkd.in/ej6RADdw

More is not better: the developing crisis of scientific publishing "There are two reasons for this. Firstly, although many scientific journals and papers maintain high standards, too many lack proper editorial oversight, many lack rigour and integrity, some engage in fraudulent practices, few observe the most basic of scientific essentials, that evidential data and metadata for a truth claim should be exposed in parallel to a published paper, and agreed standards for overall governance of the process are lacking. Secondly, the business models of commercial publishers are based on appropriation of scientific output which is then sold on to readers’ institutions at levels of profitability in excess of 30-40%, (Buranyi, 2017) a financial barrier to readers or authors or both that particularly penalizes those in low- and middle-income countries where public funding for science is limited. "

Report aims to “ensure that open science practices are sustainable and that they contribute to the highest quality research.” | Click below to read the full article on Sunalei

Scientific integrity is a crucial component of scholarly publishing. At Aging, a growing industry of digital technologies, tools and ideas are constantly being added to our robust scientific integrity process: https://lnkd.in/ej6RADdw

📚✨The world of scientific publishing plays a crucial role in advancing knowledge, supporting collaboration, and sparking innovation. But it’s not without its challenges. Ethical concerns like disputes over authorship, flaws in peer review, and the rise of ‘predatory’ journals are raising important questions about fairness, accessibility, and integrity in the process. Check out this thought-provoking article that dives into the ethical landscape of scientific publishing and why it demands our urgent attention🌍🧠 🌟 Read the blog here - https://lnkd.in/eRDY7Ada #ScienceMatters #EthicsInResearch #scientificpublishing #bsasblog Nick Wheelhouse Edinburgh Napier University animal Family of Journals