An Exploding World of Psuedo-Academia

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I don't think the activity he's referring to has that much to do with "open access." He's doing a hatchette job on the concept. Google "Aaron Swartz" if you want to get into the vagaries of "open access," and its really dark side. I have little respect for Stanford and/or its Dept of Medicine. They are bought and sold by the likes of Cargill and Monsanto, e.g.:

http://www.cornucopia.org/2012/09/stanfords-spin-on-organics-allegedly-tainted-by-biotechnology-funding/

Among many responses to their sleazoid science. Sitting there adjacent to Palo Alto, I'm sure their kids do just fine on the standardized tests that are destroying public education in the majority of the less fortunate districts throughout the land.



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Steven Goodman, a dean and professor of medicine at Stanford and the editor of the journal Clinical Trials, which has its own imitators, called this phenomenon “the dark side of open access,”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/08/health/for-scientists-an-exploding-world-of-pseudo-academia.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&ref=us


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