Marin B
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Not sure if I'm going about this right as this is my first attempt at creating a new thread, and a debunking one no less (please correct me if needed!)...
My CT-believing mother recently read an article to me titled "Academic Oligarchy: Majority of Science Publishing is Controlled by Just Six Companies" from a website called "Global Research" (http://www.globalresearch.ca/academ...g-is-controlled-by-just-six-companies/5463289)
Her bringing this article to my attention was probably in response to my informing her of journal articles published by the American Meteorological Society dating back to the early 70's that describe persistent contrails/cirrus cloud formation by commercial aircraft (she believes commercial aircraft don't make persistent contrails, or if they do they are being made remotely by the government (somehow??)).
The article in Global Research references a study by researchers at the University of Montreal and states that scientific researchers are "beholden to the interests" of the major scientific publishers, and suggests that the whole system of published research is corrupt. (A bit ironic that the article relies on a published research paper to support the proposition that scientific publications are corrupt...) I found the original research paper by the Montreal researchers (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465327/) and it's about the economics of scientific publishing by just a handful of publishers (e.g. Elsevier, et al), and doesn't at all suggest that the publishers have any control over the content of the publications (as suggested by the Global Research article). In fact, to the contrary, the original article states that "most journals rely on publishers’ systems to handle and review the manuscripts; however, while these systems facilitate the process, it is the researchers as part of the scientific community who perform peer review. Hence, this essential step of quality control is not a value added by the publishers but by the scientific community itself."
My CT-believing mother recently read an article to me titled "Academic Oligarchy: Majority of Science Publishing is Controlled by Just Six Companies" from a website called "Global Research" (http://www.globalresearch.ca/academ...g-is-controlled-by-just-six-companies/5463289)
Her bringing this article to my attention was probably in response to my informing her of journal articles published by the American Meteorological Society dating back to the early 70's that describe persistent contrails/cirrus cloud formation by commercial aircraft (she believes commercial aircraft don't make persistent contrails, or if they do they are being made remotely by the government (somehow??)).
The article in Global Research references a study by researchers at the University of Montreal and states that scientific researchers are "beholden to the interests" of the major scientific publishers, and suggests that the whole system of published research is corrupt. (A bit ironic that the article relies on a published research paper to support the proposition that scientific publications are corrupt...) I found the original research paper by the Montreal researchers (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465327/) and it's about the economics of scientific publishing by just a handful of publishers (e.g. Elsevier, et al), and doesn't at all suggest that the publishers have any control over the content of the publications (as suggested by the Global Research article). In fact, to the contrary, the original article states that "most journals rely on publishers’ systems to handle and review the manuscripts; however, while these systems facilitate the process, it is the researchers as part of the scientific community who perform peer review. Hence, this essential step of quality control is not a value added by the publishers but by the scientific community itself."
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