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Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown

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Re: Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown

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A fun and interesting article! I must however, take the time to be the ever-sensitive snowflake and highlight a troubling trend in this person's other posts. He seems to have some anti-trans leanings[1], refusing to gender people correctly and all that (and certainly not pushing back against comments which declare "M to Fs are psychotic bullies who would kill all of us to maintain their sacred illusion". Not to imply…

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Re: Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown

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Is it just me or this makes me feel less guilty for using libgen all these years

Information for non-commercial purposes should be free for general social enrichment. Information for commercial purposes should have some path towards monetization but the one we've got right now is clearly a terrible fit. For the future, though, usually if you just email one of the paper author's with even a hint of interest you'll get the full paper and often a neat discussion about how your specific interest rela…

Why should taxpayer funded research be monetized when used for commercial purposes? We have a privatized publication cartel monetizing a public good. We should instead nationalize the publishers.

Re: Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown

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I am not arguing against the facts expressed in the piece. This is not an area in which I have any expertise. However, I am a bit uncomfortable with the pithy language used. It's possible (likely, even), that the fired editors deserve the pithiness, but it's still a bit weird to read that kind of prose, in a scientific context.

pithy: Concise and meaningful. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pithy

Hate to break it to you, but it’s an age-old rhetorical technique, to use semi-polite language, to stand in for less-polite language.

I’ve been using “pithy” as a a rhetorical hook for decades. It’s fairly common.

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