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Apr 23Liked by Mary Flannery

Ha, can you, please, time travel 40 years ago? Even 30 would work. Heck, 20 would work wonders. What am I saying, 10 years ago, would have saved an agonizing frustrating situation.

These, following mostly a malignant logic, ( whatever it takes and it happened to the perpetrator generally) are, in my empirical interactions, the norm in science. At least at medical and biomedical, are even expected, in order to not be labeled as " not a team player " and replaced with the next hapless desperate one.

Peer review, as it's right now, closed, it's a very poor system. Skewed and biased at best. The clamping on open peer reviews is well funded by the "established science publisher. And the established institutional stakeholders. That cultivate the clubs of peer-reviewers at the side meetings at the conferences, usually in a convivial atmosphere of a posh restaurant .

And good luck submitting without your supervisor name, head of department name and their other lifted or self plagiarized (mostly both applies) ones.

This ubiquitous system of idea and even writing appropriation, with no credit , or a thank you generic footnote is and tenure track book publishing is based on a high number of obedient ( ... or else) individuals.

Ethics are a liability.

And Kafka was an optimist.

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