PLOS’ Weak Response
Framed out of the real issues, PLOS tries to respond to the PNAS paper
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Boomers & Broken Governance
Many ills of modern society come down to failed institutional leadership
Friday Song: “Golden”
The Song of the Summer arrives via demon hunters
Pod: “The Dumbest Ad Business”
We sell spots in our journals at cheap rates and without crafting packages
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