[brohee]

It's basically organised crime. It's public money funding scientific publishing, and a huge part of the industry is just here to scam public money.

The industry is ripe for public prosecution when an article submitter didn't read it, an article reviewer didn't read it, neither did the publisher yet it is published in a journal with a subscription price in the thousands payed by publicly funded libraries.

[esalman]

So many students on every level of higher education, probably even starting from high school, are now using chat GPT. Does this make education a crime?

[brohee]

When they get a scholarship out of it, it might actually be... But the organized crime part is obviously the publishing industry.

[Pigalowda]

Austin Powers warned us about the Dutch in the 90’s. Elsevier is part of Dr. Evil’s empire.