There's another blog out there critizicing it hard, but I won't link it because it's anonymous. I have to add that I myself have experienced MDPI 's gangster intimidation tactics and lack of peer review first hand.
For a nuanced analysis please read @paolocrosetto.bsky.socialpaolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/i... where he gives them a credibility I personally do not think they deserved.
Edit April 20th, 2021: thanks to Christos Petrou I found a bug in my code. I was considering both "Section" and "Collection" articles as Speical Issue. The whole analysis has been changed to accommoda...
The last part is especially important when dealing with (clear) outliers, in (meta)genomics I'd say it's safer to assume some technical/methodological bias or error, before believing this is the first observation of something never ever reported before
I don't want to minimise the importance of amateur collectors and private collections in the past. But if there are 44M to pay for ONE fossil, then there should be enough money to fund palaeontological research all around. And fossils should be common property, I think
Yes, definitely.
Ok. Except that post-colonial North America spent a good part of the last century imposing puppet governments and supporting dictators in South and Central America while oppressing social uprisings.
Hej Neil, you've expressed some of your ideas of the relationship between science and humanity... but I wondered what are your thoughts on the relationship between art and science
Is it even lying it it is a non-sentient machine? Is the lie in the motive of the teller? Or in misinforming the receiver? Or does it requires both?
