A Different Perspective on Peer Review--Librarians? (Introduction)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Thursday, July 12, 2012, 03:56 (4519 days ago) @ David Turell

http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/7/151235-predatory-scholarly-publishing/fulltext&... 
> As this article implies, the entire area of scholarly publishing is sick. Everyone knows my solution. Free access to all 'new discovery' articles. No university or college tenure. Same for high school. Journals supported by academic societies. Articles accepted by the editors of those journals, peer review not required. Journals should be non-profit. Science in the past advanced because all ideas and thinking were freely open for discussion. Look back at 1903 in history. Did Einstein pay to publish? 
> -What you say about Einstein is poignant, but I don't have a problem with Tenure: There needs to be *some* kind of institutionalized rebellion. -> Look at the history of public education in this country before teacher unionization. Property tax supported free knowledge. We had a well-taught knowledgable public which de Tocqueville raved about.-De Tocqueville? He would have been friends with Nietzsche:-"But one also finds in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to want to bring the strong down to their level, and which reduces men to preferring equality in servitude to inequality in freedom"-It's important to remember though, many of his insights applied to an America that no longer exists. -America is a rope between two extremes: Jeffersonian, self-reliant landowners, and the Madisonian cosmopolitanism. -It's pretty clear who's winning that battle.

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"