I’ve seen some really good papers in MDPI which challenge the consensus in different fields and I’m assuming aren’t published in bigger journals because colleagues are stuck in their own ways and disagree with the premise of the paper.

But these papers are vastly outnumbered by a mix of low quality papers and obvious corporate sponsored or “self-promotion of my new vitamin” type papers.

Mostly it’s seen as low quality no?

The vibe I got was that they’d basically accept anything in return for money.

There’s enough total housing.

But people need to be able to live where they have a chance of being hired. And some places don’t have enough housing.

Awesome. Thanks for everything you do.

Oh thank you for that. That makes sense as an explanation. For example I can access !china@lemmygrad.ml or !zhong1guo2@lemmygrad.ml

yes but copy paste includes the hidden part if it’s placed in a strategic location

actually not too dumb lol

I signed up and never got the verification email. It happened to basically everyone else that signed up too. Weird. Looks like the “official launch” was actually the “beginning of beta test”, weird how they marketed it as an “official launch”.

The truth doesn’t change. Scientific consensus does. Scientific consensus has been wrong on countless things. After all, science is about getting things a little less wrong every time.

I mean I used an example in another thread but take this.

Imagine there is a new disease starts affecting people. We don’t know if it is physical or mental.

The two biggest funders in medicine are government and insurance companies, both of them would benefit from this illness being mental, because due to laws and regulations they have to spend less money on mental illness patients. So we have a mountain of research funded trying to portray the disease as psychological. And no research attempting to find biological causes.

This legitimately happened to an illness called ME, only 40 years later through patient crowdfunding and tens of thousands of deaths later was enough research funded to disprove that it is psychological and show it is neuroimmune.

I’m an anarchist who despises authoritairian tankies.

This is just critical theory, and meta science. Both of which are legitimate fields.

For sure, but it’s important to keep in mind in fields with large financial interests.

Medicine especially. Most studies claiming Cealiac disease (gluten allergy) was not real before it was conclusively proven to be legitimate were funded by bread companies. You won’t believe the number of studies funded by insurance companies trying to show that certain diseases aren’t really disabling, (even though they really are).

If you’d like to read into this I recommend these books.

1. “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” by Thomas S. Kuhn

2. “Science as Social Knowledge” by Helen Longino

3. “The Politics of Science” by David Politzer

4. “The Science Industry” by Philip Mirowski

5. “The Commodification of Science: A Critical Perspective” by various authors

An example of why this matters would be that research claiming ME was psychological was heavily funded, by both governments and insurance companies because it meant that they didn’t have to spend money on people disabled with ME. No effort was made to look at possible biological causes. Only a couple decades later, we now know it is a neuroimmune disease. But since insurers and government don’t benefit from that fact, it took decades to show and disprove the mountain of research claiming it is psychological. This meant thousands of people died from the disease or were in severe poverty.

All they have bone wise is a beak. Whatever can fit their beak they can also fit through.

hard to argue with

As far as I know Zoidberg heavily insinuates his degree was faked/bought.

Oh god vim that brings me back.

How I felt taking my notes in LaTeX (yes I am a perfectionist math nerd)

I’ll just be happy it doesn’t ask me to make an account

I know Auslan (australian sign language) but yes

https://github.com/SamChenYu/SignSync

Also this one https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/signup-sign-language-for/gbllbjbhbafgdcolenjhdoabdjjbjoom

I use BSL as it’s closest to Auslan on it but I think they also support ASL and Indian Sign Languave