Kent Anderson

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Selling Vices Using Cureus

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A Little Monday Mayhem

ChatGPT — Conflicts of APCs

Even a new AI agent understands the conflicts of interest around APCs

Song: “I Can’t Make You Love Me”

Anyone who didn’t know about Bonnie Raitt before this past weekend has been missing out in a big way. The recipient of 13 Grammy Awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Raitt has been a force in music for decades, as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Rolling Stone has

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A Pricey Royal Pricing Edict

cOAlition S wastes $100K to get a pre-ordained result from its Executive Director

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Inching Toward Irrelevancy

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Following Up on OSTP, Cureus

Nelson is leaving OSTP, and Cureus has some projections revised and questions answered/opened

Friday Song: “Dance Macabre”

A glam, satanic band from Sweden is making some of the most popular rock music today.

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Cureus, COPE, and PubMed

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Cureus Is Curious, Indeed

Springer Nature acquires an OA medical journal with an odd approach to financing itself

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Can We Recover Our Norms?

They Come for the Libraries

With the new year come new rules constraining the independence of librarians

Friday Song: “Gravity”

A song about freedom, defiance, and purpose, sung by an amazing artist

Recalling a Favorite Column

Remembering the value of empathy by recalling a favorite column

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What Is a Preprint Now?

Monday Housekeeping

A few updates and tidbits to kick Monday off right

Song: “Someone Like You”

A classic that couldn't be improved after one of its first performances, despite multiple efforts

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OA and Right-Wing Rhetoric

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Equity or Uniformity?

Extremism in sheep's clothing is still extremism, and equity can squash freedoms

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Suffer the Children

Review: “The Revolutionary”

A great new biography of an oft-forgotten Founding Father

ChatGPT Says It’s Not an Author

ChatGPT may not be the problem — our tendency to assign consciousness to inanimate objects may be

Friday Song: “I Will Run To You”

Some songwriters generate so many great songs, some — like this one — get lost in the sands of time.

Flawed Data, Bad Assumptions

Again and again, preprint analyses fail to account for the amount of peer-review occurring before preprints are posted

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Can We Trust Authors?