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.

  • 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