How is this academia’s moment? People have been publishing bad science since its inception, its why we made tools like peer-review which predate the internet.
also this https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=202307201... which is bad because the academia is intended to be above this "petty geopolitics". as far as I know academic collaboration didn't quite stop either during the cold war, but I was born after it was over so I don't really know this, might be wrong.
and more than all these, the whole sci-hub debacle is the biggest telltale.
this is not about good or bad science, but about the money incentives.
maybe I'm in a news-bubble, but I also see things about postdocs being a fraud, even PhD's are now a dubious gamble?
and then I add my personal experience doing a masters at a public 3rd world country university, and I just hope it burns to the ground, which is a bad idea to dwell on.
"One of the most internationally cited scientists, Ai Koyanagi, forced to renounce her controversial contract with a Saudi university"
"The psychiatrist, currently employed in Spain at the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, declared that her main place of work was King Abdulaziz University, with the aim of elevating the Arab institution in the international rankings"
And is not the only researcher in that gravy train:
"Seven highly cited Spanish researchers [employed by Spain], paid by universities in Saudi Arabia to increase their prestige [posing as fake full-time employees of that Universities]"
BSEdlMMldESB|2 years ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-m...
also the scandals in standford and harvard.
also this https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=202307201... which is bad because the academia is intended to be above this "petty geopolitics". as far as I know academic collaboration didn't quite stop either during the cold war, but I was born after it was over so I don't really know this, might be wrong.
and more than all these, the whole sci-hub debacle is the biggest telltale.
this is not about good or bad science, but about the money incentives.
maybe I'm in a news-bubble, but I also see things about postdocs being a fraud, even PhD's are now a dubious gamble?
and then I add my personal experience doing a masters at a public 3rd world country university, and I just hope it burns to the ground, which is a bad idea to dwell on.
pvaldes|2 years ago
https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-04-20/one-of-th...
"One of the most internationally cited scientists, Ai Koyanagi, forced to renounce her controversial contract with a Saudi university"
"The psychiatrist, currently employed in Spain at the Sant Joan de Déu Research Institute, declared that her main place of work was King Abdulaziz University, with the aim of elevating the Arab institution in the international rankings"
And is not the only researcher in that gravy train:
"Seven highly cited Spanish researchers [employed by Spain], paid by universities in Saudi Arabia to increase their prestige [posing as fake full-time employees of that Universities]"