petersuber, 1 year ago

"A new industry is extracting fees from well-heeled families to enable their teenage children to conduct and publish research that colleges may regard as a credential."
https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications

Please read the whole thing. This is not about #predatory journals in the usual sense. It's a new kind of #misconduct, both on the #publishing side and the side of parents buying #university slots that would have gone to worthy #students from less chiseling families.

#academia
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