"X is the worst form of Y...except for all the other ones ever invented!" Is a vehicle that automatically flatters the sense that we are sophisticated. It's a cognitive trap for the college educated.
Smaller numbers of journals with higher quality strong editors is the solution.
Smaller numbers of journals with higher quality strong editors is the solution.
https://twitter.com/martinmbauer/status/1619654489606324224
Let's learn this trap of first order counter intuition together.
If I say "Strong High Quality Editors is the worst form of academic vetting...well....except for all the other ones ever invented. Ha ha." we are now on a level playing field. And what is more, science until 1965 was not obsessively focused on peer review...leaving a question.
Setting 1965 as the rough date in which non-biomedical science becomes dominated by "Peer Review", which do you find more impressive:
Furthermore the person who may be most associated with moving all of science towards Peer Review was an unscrupulous buisness man who made a fortune hoodwinking scienitsts and universities into buying his explosion of overpriced journals. He is the father of Ghislaine Maxwell.
His business was called Pergamon Press. And by exploding the number of lower quality journals, he obligated all universities to send him a fortune in subscriptions to avoid having incomplete libraries. A scheme as ingenious as it was unethical.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_…
Lastly, he fooled younger scientists into saying what @martinmbauer repeated. Most younger scientists have never seen earth shattering breakthroughs that dominated earlier eras and have no idea that Peer Review is not traditionally part of their fields. Madness.
Thx. #MindControl
Thx. #MindControl
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