Posted by adharmad 1 day ago
Plank is very famous. If this happens to you, but 50 years after you die: odds are you are not famous and nobody will notice.
In other words, publishers want a monopoly on what they publish and take the copy rights away from the actual authors.
Edit0: Although UQ is a group of 10 universities that are public, they are not a single entity.
Was it a bot commenting as well? That's a hilariously tone-deaf response. Guess we'd better bust out the ouija board to ask max plank himself.
Counting papers is death. Everything connected with it is death. This is Max fucking Planck, who gave us the photon. We're judging him according to today's "standards." He's "failing."
Ok. So be it. We'll get what we incentivize.
Good luck sharing that information with Max Planck. It's amazing how robotically humans can act sometimes. I suppose this could be an AI or automated response, but it's just as likely it's someone following the letter of the law without using any critical thought.
Saved you a click.
1. Springer Nature are happily selling an empty PDF for $39.95.
2. Springer Nature responded that they’re not going to tell you why they retracted it, because retraction details are normally only shared with the author (who in this case died almost 80 years ago).