Anyone doing academic writing, from students at university to scientists, nurses, doctors, engineers, math teachers, vets, all need to read and reference many, many of these academic texts to do any sort of research.

Now imagine every time you want to cite anything, you can only read the synopsis at best because every source wants you to spend $50.

It’s normal to need like 50 references for a research paper by the way (although students can get away with 10-20)

I’m sure locking the culmination of human knowledge behind a paywall and limiting the amount of people that can contribute to that knowledge will end well for the species.

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      51·
      1 month ago

      Eat shit, racist. Chinese papers are leagues more professional and relavent to my ecology research than the American papers funded by 3M to lie about how dangerous their latest product is

    • robinnist@hexbear.netEnglish
      47·
      1 month ago

      The issue of “paper mills” is not exclusive to China, this being an issue in the West as well. Your mentioning of this ultimately comes down to reddit-logo anti-China brainrot.

        • VILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          35·
          1 month ago

          very-intelligent I am against both the colonizer and the colonized! Both the imperialist and the imperialized! Who cares about historical context and modern geopolitical dynamics when I can just pretend that they are all equal at the level of a platonic state!

          Every time the “but I’m against everyone” argument gets wheeled out, inevitably the critique of the US is that healthcare should be free and the “critique” of China is that the subversive oriental savages must be exterminated.

          Extremely typical western chauvinist “leftist” behavior. Completely unsurprising.

        • PointAndClique [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          29·
          1 month ago

          Being anti-intellectual in the process. This is research and education we’re talking about so your swipe at Chinese ‘paper mills’ that you’re passing off as principled anti-statism is indistinguishable from peddling tried and tired US State Department anti-China tropes. Nice going

    • meth_dragon [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      30·
      1 month ago

      chinese system is just the western system put into a much more highly competitive environment. the paper mills are symptoms of a (shittily designed and archaic) system operating in a cultural and socioeconomic environment it should not be operating in.