Thank you for this article, I wondered why had not seen much of Wylie journal publications over the past few years!
The lack of accountability for the researchers to produce something useful for our society is incredibly frustrating. The vetting process in Canada is broken in several places.
Wiley is taking a huge revenue hit from their journals right now. I hope they manage to survive it. They're more than 200 years old (they published Moby-DIck!) and they're still owned by the family. Jesse Wiley is currently the company chairman - he once went to bat for me when I was having trouble working with the internal bureaucracy.
I agree with your questioning the value of such publicly funded research in an environment where analysis of costs, benefits, and follow-up tend to be missing. I will differ with you on your choice of alternative spending as I would prefer paying down debt. I take the unpopular position that NATO should have been retired in 1991 when James Baker (US Secretary of State) assured Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch eastward once the Soviet Union dissolved with the neocon US and UK Russophobes expanding NATO encirclement 800 miles Eastward and 11 nation expansion to date. The US proxy war with Russia has turned out to be a typical US foreign policy blunder along the lines of Viet Nam, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya costing the US treasury and Ukrainian blood in a war that can either be settled with Russia freeing their ethnic strongholds that they have had to reconquer, or escalating a mindless NATO / US inspired sleepwalk to nuclear war. From a Russian standpoint, the US NATO-izing the Ukraine is no different than if China were to overturn Mexico's government and set up military bases with missile platforms on the South side of the Rio Grande.
The US has set up another potential disaster by seizing Russian assets pushing them into the BRICs eventually ending the US dollar as world reserve currency as well as pushing Russia into the arms of a China no longer led by a reformer.
You're right that there are probably a dozen other better ways to spend the money we save from questionable research. I just used NATO as an example. So far I've actually avoided talking about military funding on The Audit - and I have no plans right now to start.
I hope they survive as well. I subscribed to "Mind, Brain, and Education" for several years. A family matter required all my attention for about a year and when I did not go back to work I let my subscription slide. I just signed up again.
As always, Sir, provocative: provocative in the sense of thought provoking.
Thank you for this article, I wondered why had not seen much of Wylie journal publications over the past few years!
The lack of accountability for the researchers to produce something useful for our society is incredibly frustrating. The vetting process in Canada is broken in several places.
Wiley is taking a huge revenue hit from their journals right now. I hope they manage to survive it. They're more than 200 years old (they published Moby-DIck!) and they're still owned by the family. Jesse Wiley is currently the company chairman - he once went to bat for me when I was having trouble working with the internal bureaucracy.
I agree with your questioning the value of such publicly funded research in an environment where analysis of costs, benefits, and follow-up tend to be missing. I will differ with you on your choice of alternative spending as I would prefer paying down debt. I take the unpopular position that NATO should have been retired in 1991 when James Baker (US Secretary of State) assured Gorbachev that NATO would not move one inch eastward once the Soviet Union dissolved with the neocon US and UK Russophobes expanding NATO encirclement 800 miles Eastward and 11 nation expansion to date. The US proxy war with Russia has turned out to be a typical US foreign policy blunder along the lines of Viet Nam, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya costing the US treasury and Ukrainian blood in a war that can either be settled with Russia freeing their ethnic strongholds that they have had to reconquer, or escalating a mindless NATO / US inspired sleepwalk to nuclear war. From a Russian standpoint, the US NATO-izing the Ukraine is no different than if China were to overturn Mexico's government and set up military bases with missile platforms on the South side of the Rio Grande.
The US has set up another potential disaster by seizing Russian assets pushing them into the BRICs eventually ending the US dollar as world reserve currency as well as pushing Russia into the arms of a China no longer led by a reformer.
You're right that there are probably a dozen other better ways to spend the money we save from questionable research. I just used NATO as an example. So far I've actually avoided talking about military funding on The Audit - and I have no plans right now to start.
I hope they survive as well. I subscribed to "Mind, Brain, and Education" for several years. A family matter required all my attention for about a year and when I did not go back to work I let my subscription slide. I just signed up again.