The propaganda war against open science
Nature’s reporting that some science publishers have hired Eric Dezenhall (who did PR for Enron among others) to fight the new Open Science movement:
the consultant advised them to focus on simple messages, such as ”Public access equals government censorship”. He hinted that the publishers should attempt to equate traditional publishing models with peer review, and “paint a picture of what the world would look like without peer-reviewed articles”.
Read more about the pathetic dying throes of a parasitic industry and then go support PLOS, whilst pondering the irony of Nature complaining about this.
Posted on 
January 26th, 2007 by 
Simon Greenhill
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