Pod: “The Dumbest Ad Business”
We sell spots in our journals at cheap rates and without crafting packages
Kent Anderson
Dear Sleuths: Follow the Money
Are paper mills just laundering money?
Zenodo and an IQ Preprint Claim
An abuser of preprints lays out all the benefits
Substack, Nazis, and “Gaslight”
More Substack means more “gaslight,” more Nazis
Song: “Enjoy the Silence”
A transformed song became a 1990s classic
NIH Poised to Regulate APCs
The NIH comes for high APCs with five garbage ideas
Pod: “The Coming AI Winter”
This week, we discuss the potential for an AI winter, and what it might mean for publishers
Bad OA and Bleaching Cancer
Injecting bleach gets citable support from preprints and a bad journal article
Pod Preview: Zitron’s AI Winter
Scientific publishers should seek shelter
Now It’s “Gaslight” Preprints
A bogus preprint gets the full MAHA media blitz