Is This a Scam?

There's this huge labor abuse going on. When you're a professor at a university, and then you go to a publisher, like elsevere or nature or science, and then the publisher is the one whos giving us reviews for fury,. And then the publisher sells that back to your institution. Y, like that is the ultimate scam. They're taking free labor, and it's all based on the brand of the journal and the impact factor. An some fucking metrics that are gamed. I mean, hon, are they making a yes, their margins are, like, they're like over 50. R yk, theyare, you 80 %.

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