Special Interest Group on CRAP

I’ve owned a hybrid car (a Toyota Prius) for almost three years now, and it’s been quite satisfying. It’s amazing to routinely get 50 miles per gallon on every tank with no effort on my part. I just get in it and drive it like any other car. OK well maybe not [...]

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I recently declined to referee a paper for a closed-access journal. This particular case was an ACM journal, which is one of the least objectionable of the closed-access publishers, but it still bugs me that we continue to turn over science to people who then sell it back to scientists. This does not [...]

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