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Christine Sutherland's avatar

Let those dogs slip James. Look forward to it. I often wonder if some free-for-all-type journal couldn’t be worse than the system we have, with literally anyone able to do an open review and place a vote such as “completely robust” or “absolute pigswill”. Maybe it could even be better, for a number of reasons.

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Leonid Schneider's avatar

"Were there any hard-hitting investigative pieces on the biggest screwup in academic publishing history?"

James, whatever you think of me, this is disrespectful towards my colleagues whose investigative work not just reported but actually caused all those 11k retractions at Hindawi.

You know about Smut Clyde's and Parashorea tomentella's articles. on For Better Science. Why do you write things like the above then?

https://forbetterscience.com/2022/09/05/cyclotron-branch-before-the-fall/

https://forbetterscience.com/2023/01/03/hindawi-garbage-sorting-system-based-on-citations/

But I rather suspect you will not allow this comment ton your blog.

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