Silicon Valley's Dumbest 'Inventions' of 2017
gizmodo.com3 pointsby mvonthron0 comments
- authors pay to publish their work
- readers pay to read the articles
- reviewers review pro-bono
now you are thinking "well where the hell goes the money" and you are in the same situation as 99% of scientists
This PR is helpful in that it reminds me that there are actually people paid to take a simple set of information and mix in with a ton of PR bullshit so that you have to read it 4 times before you actually understand that yes, they screw up.