Very slick presentation. What concerns me is that a for-profit entity is publishing assertions and findings of the scientific community. If you are familiar with publishing, you can appreciate how...
Very slick presentation. What concerns me is that a for-profit entity is publishing assertions and findings of the scientific community. If you are familiar with publishing, you can appreciate how a publisher can very much skew public perception if the publisher has an agenda. For profit companies have repeatedly demonstrated that they eventually dance to their bottom line: profit. Companies like Google start off with the "do no wrong" when they are flush with cash and revenue and controlled by founders who can direct the company to unprofitably pursue their interests and policies, but eventually the companies have to reckon with Wall Street profits and company morals becomes less and less a priority. I would hate to see traditional publication channels of scientific findings displaced by well funded news organizations who can afford to drive lesser competitors out of the market -- then the public flow of information becomes mediated by for-profit entities and inevitably will skew results favorable to their advertisers.
Very slick presentation. What concerns me is that a for-profit entity is publishing assertions and findings of the scientific community. If you are familiar with publishing, you can appreciate how a publisher can very much skew public perception if the publisher has an agenda. For profit companies have repeatedly demonstrated that they eventually dance to their bottom line: profit. Companies like Google start off with the "do no wrong" when they are flush with cash and revenue and controlled by founders who can direct the company to unprofitably pursue their interests and policies, but eventually the companies have to reckon with Wall Street profits and company morals becomes less and less a priority. I would hate to see traditional publication channels of scientific findings displaced by well funded news organizations who can afford to drive lesser competitors out of the market -- then the public flow of information becomes mediated by for-profit entities and inevitably will skew results favorable to their advertisers.