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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As much as I'm against parasitic practices, I wonder how the inevitable corruption of money would (further) skew research if academia was well paid for their papers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

We're not saying pay the authors a bunch, we're saying make the papers free to read. Or at least don't charge authors and readers both, while keeping all the money for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And I wonder how, not having the pressure to "succeed" research (to gain further grants), would increase the quality of said research.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I quit a physics phd path just under a decade ago because my experimental results were turning up negative and the uni I was at pushed me to doctor my results so we would keep getting funded. I also wonder about this