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[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago

"a major pay-for-win garbage science laundromat" you mean

[–] ThoGot@lemm.ee 16 points 4 days ago

what. the. fuck.

[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey, I tried to look this up on the web for the original news source, but didn't find any. Can you please share the link? I'd like to share a more formal news story with my collaboration group.

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] pirofti@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Romanian here working in Academia, can confirm this happened and was a huge headline in the press a few weeks ago. Let me know if you need more info.

[–] Maroon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thanks for the offer. I had forwarded the retraction watch article to my colleagues and we had a chat about this incident. I don't think we'll be sending our work to MPDI, ever!

It just breaks my heart to see so many people from eastern Europe and Asian countries exploited for their labour.

[–] bertof@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

This is really not ok. WTF.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 points 4 days ago

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.