Reed Elsevier accepts criticism, drops arms support 2 Jun 200724 Nov 2022 Well blow me down and call me a dishmop. Reed Elsevier, who I recently criticised for running arms exhibitions while publishing medical and other intellectual journals, and who were boycotted by medical authors, has folded. They are, according to this story, getting out of the arms exhibition business. And so they should. I’d like to think my threat of philosophers boycotting Elsevier journals played a role, but then I’d also like to think that I was living in luxury in French Polynesia… Late note: Hat tip to Grllscientist. Logic and philosophy Politics
Freedom Pope gets tax-paid visit to UK to denounce equality of gays before the law… 2 Feb 2010 I am glad to see I am not the only person who finds this unconscionable… I hope the Grauniad won’t sue me for reposting their piece below the fold. Read More
Logic and philosophy Vale Michael Ghiselin 17 Jun 202424 Jun 2024 Michael Ghiselin, who was the originator of (the modern) view that species are individuals, died on 14 June 2024. He was a very generous person with his time for antipodean philosophers. With his passing, the authors of the SAI thesis, as it is called, are both gone: he and his… Read More
General Science Speaking scientific factiness to power 14 Sep 2007 When the Republicans began their deconstruction of American democracy, under Newt Gingrich, one of the immediate targets was the emasculation of the Office of Technology Assessment. Since that time, the Republicans have mangled, misused and rhetorically denied any science that failed to fit their self-interests or those of their sponsors,… Read More
So, do your eyes glow periodically now and do you suddenly find you are speaking with a bass-enhanced voice and harbouring ambitions of ruling the galaxy?
I have to confess, I wasn’t doing much to help the boycott. But, if you go into mathematical physics, avoiding Elsevier is like avoiding Nitrogen. I did feel guilty every time I used them, though.
you are very kind to me. a reader of mine tipped me off to this news — it would have taken me at least 2 days to find it on my own!
you are very kind to me. a reader of mine tipped me off to this news — it would have taken me at least 2 days to find it on my own!