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> “We urgently need to rethink scientific communication!”

The solution to lazybones using AI for journal manuscripts is to simply go back to the old school model of charging a submission and reading fee for all journal article submissions. And then issue a refund of the reading fee ONLY to the authors of articles chosen for publication–those which show up to the conference to present the paper.

This would weed out the majority share of the nonsense and ensure staff could be paid to really review manuscripts.

Imagine if the USPTO didn’t charge a fee for patents and trademarks. Now you know why they do. The Patent and Trademark system would self-destruct in a fortnight. Instead of painstakingly perfecting one’s claims to avoid wasting money, claimants would throw a never-ending stream of crappy claims applications at the patent examiners.

Many poetry journals and magazines formerly charged reading fees to submit work. This limited the amount of garbage they had to sort through. If you have to pay to play then you’re much, much more likely to play your best.

The online revolution and the entitlement mentality created by misguided anti-copyright zealots have convinced an entire generation that, “information is free.” Well, no, actually, it isn’t. If you want good information, it costs sweat, blood, tears, talent, and time to produce–and all the same pains to filter out the garbage.