“War on science” catches on
Two weeks ago, Dr. Mike Taylor, a researcher at BristolUniversity,
Especially Netherlands-based Elsevier has become target of wideranging condemnation as Taylor writes that “Elsevier’s true agendais nothing nobler than to line their pockets at the expense ofscientists worldwide and everyone with a preventable or treatabledisease.”
Gaining steam
Ever since, the debate gained further steam as a number ofscientists, bloggers and magazines have taken up the subject. Withhis blog
Gowers writes that “I am not only going to refuse to haveanything to do with Elsevier journals from now on, but I am sayingso publicly. I am by no means the first person to do this, but themore of us there are, the more socially acceptable it becomes, andthat is my main reason for writing this post.”
Apart from being covered in the popular academic
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