I tend to be more tolerant of academia as a reaction to the hard-right war on expertise, and by extension, war on objective reality. Yet Mammon's greed reaches within those halls as well. You might enjoy this about Elsevier, a major publisher and thus academic gatekeeper:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/07/too-greedy-mass-walkout-at-global-science-journal-over-unethical-fees
'Too greedy': mass walkout at global science journal over 'unethical' fees
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Entire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
Some lowlights:
-From 2014 to 2017, Elsevier put some articles behind a paywall that should have been open access.
-Elsevier rejected a paper for publication because it didn't cite enough of the journal's previously published papers.
-More than 40 leading scientists resigned from the editorial board of the journal Neuroimage in protest at what they described as Elsevier's "greed".
-Elsevier published six publications between 2000 and 2005 that were sponsored by pharmaceutical companies but did not disclose sponsorship.
-Elsevier has campaigned against openness to protect its paywall-based business.
-Universities have canceled their Elsevier subscriptions, citing costs and lack of open access.
Another symptom of late-stage metastatic capitalism.
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