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Scientific publishing has been gamed to advance scientists’ careers


fic publishing has been gamed to advance scientists’ careers, not knowledge. While science communication has turned into a means of public indoctrination.

Scientific publishing has been gamed to advance scientists’ careers, not knowledge. While science communication has turned into a means of public indoctrination. In this essay, Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that real experts don’t know “the truth,” and that we should become pilgrims towards the unknown rather than the squatters of the broken records of ideological mantras.

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