[Taxacom] science-industrial complex

[John Grehan]

This is nothing we don't know well already as it's been the status quo for
quite some decades, but interesting to see an issue being made of it - not
that it will change anything. Opening paragraph below. Site (link below)
has an interesting cartoon.

Cheers, John Grehan

We all know of predatory publishing (where scientists submit dodgy papers
to fake journals), and many are also aware of predatory conferences (where
scientists travel to fake conferences at fancy locations, sometimes to pick
up a fake award). But what the German geologist Wolfgang Dreybrodt,
emeritus professor at the University of Bremen, wishes to talk about, is
predatory authors, where undeserving scientists impose themselves as
coauthors on other people’s papers. All of these predatory activities serve
the purpose of padding one’s CV, and the higher you rank, the more freedom
you get to engage in predatory activities.

https://forbetterscience.com/2020/02/04/predatory-authors-by-wolfgang-dreybrodt/