Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Really need more open journal space.

This system was set up by Ghillaine, Epstein's child acquisition specialist's, father.

In case you needed insight into the heinous minds behind it

They made more sense before the internet, when the transfer of information was not nearly as easy. With that being said, there is not much reason for them to exist anymore.

As long as academias obsession with „if you didn’t publish there (for example Nature), your paper is not worth much“ is still going on, nothing will change.

The reason why journals exist is because they're supposed to do filtering of bad papers. Whether they actually do that, of course, is another question. And whether it could be done in a (much) better way than it's currently done is also an important question for academia.

We do need a rigorous review process. Just accepting substandard papers and mal attribution from a bum duck nowhere "university" is unacceptable.

That being said the current way of monetization and margins are also bad. And we might need higher standards.

This comic is especially relevant because the academics that hold out the longest are going to be the ones who are hurt the worst.

Elbakyan, we need you!