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A shady business operated out of a British mansion is buying up scientific journals to earn millions by publishing mediocre studies (english.elpais.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This sounds like the beginning of a murder mystery:

A shady business network apparently run by Pakistani and Indonesian citizens from a mansion on the outskirts of Birmingham, United Kingdom, has launched an attack on the Spanish scientific journal industry. The group is buying up long-standing publications and converting them into fast-money machines by increasing the price they charge researchers for publishing, in addition to increasing the number of studies published with little regard to their quality. Alberto Martín and Emilio Delgado, two University of Granada professors who have been investigating the phenomenon, compare what is happening to the movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which people are secretly replaced by emotionless clones born from mysterious alien pods.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Scooby Doo episode