The fringes of publishing are big business without academic rigour or integrity. Paper mills, predatory journals, fake papers and publish-for-profit damage public trust in academia.
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Example: when anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists cling to refuted studies denounced by the authors themselves.
Or whenever a contemporary study attempts to refute climate change... those papers are sometimes paid for by the oil sector.
Every attack on academia and the media curtails free speech.
Or do y'all just keep acting like the only reason why is ignorance and disinformation?
Have y'all considered how academia is structured is the problem, not everyone outside of it?
instead of building academia and society around the fact that we'll never have absolute truth or predictability, our imperialist society..
it's fundamentally barbaric on all levels, but academic authority can't acknowledge it without admitting that the least qualified individuals have been called academics just because they're dumb enough to act absolutist
like academics are both threatened to be discredited for not having "integrity" and have to "play the game" to secure research funding
y'all left integrity behind LONG ago lmao
you're all conditioned with the same rules and logic and anyone who doesn't use them is removed from the system
kinda crazy that you think academia is freely assembled lmao