• Bacano@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      2 months 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.

    • Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

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