tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post8145456886418193586..comments2023-09-24T08:04:06.909-04:00Comments on FSK's Guide to Reality: Academic Journal ExtortionFSKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-57685449737291336622010-06-24T18:39:06.099-04:002010-06-24T18:39:06.099-04:00It actually isn't as bad as Scott suggests. Y...It actually isn't as bad as Scott suggests. You can buy a non-student pass at the local university library for a couple hundred dollars a semester. When I was in grad school, I concluded that buying a library card was cheaper than being a grad student.<br /><br />All the really good stuff is available for free on the Internet now.FSKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11903396202330950362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2182962435875556601.post-26090454783994157392010-06-24T13:02:30.385-04:002010-06-24T13:02:30.385-04:00I agree completely with everything you said here. ...I agree completely with everything you said here. The situation is absurd, a rip off, and we haven't even gotten to the point where we consider the fact that the research, paid for with public monies, is walled off from the public from access since no one is going to pay $20 for a 24 hour "pass" to read an article one time when they don't even know if it will be of use to them.<br /><br />A reddit engine would be great, but I bet academics are terrified of the prospect that people with math and logic skills would have access to the claims they make in their papers.<br /><br />Also, the whole scientific fraud system works by keeping it closed. Any paper will refer to 20-100 other papers (let's say average 30), all of which are impossible to find, or cost $20 each to read for one day as well. Each of those have 20-100 papers they rely on for their claims. And so on, going back 4-20 levels (average 10 levels), requiring fees of up to $20 * 30^10 = $6,000,000,000,000 in order to trace all the claims made in any one article.<br /><br />And if you don't trace those claims, then when you criticize the claims in the article the rebuttal is "that was all proven in the citations I referred to".Scottnoreply@blogger.com