WONDERFUL ARTICLE BY A TENURED YALE UNIV FACULTY

[Rama Iyer]

 Scientific publishing has been described as a disaster: Publishers have become cartels, with a chokehold on our ability to share our findings and on the metrics responsible for professional ascendence. Hiring and promotion are incorrigibly tainted by network effects, which accentuate biases towards certain institutions, mentor pedigrees, and extended professional circles. Idea mafias dominate fields for reasons having nothing to do with the quality of the science. Scientists who lean into the stories of great luminaries by applying their skill set to new problems incur a measurable professional penalty. And demographic disparities (in ethnicity or gender, for example) dictate who gets funded, cited, and, by extension, elevated into the leadership of many fields.  

the above para from this article 

https://undark.org/2026/06/04/opinion-risk-aversion-innovation/

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Rama