On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > Raghu: To put it simply, Kendzior is only seeing a part of the picture-and > in a dichotomy of black and white. > --------- > This is empty. "Academic publishing" is not, in essence, a pursuit of > knowledge (though quite a bit of it is, by accident, such); it is a > technique for the granting of tenure and promotions.
You can submit "academic publishing: a technique for the granting of tenure and promotions" as a new entry for The Devil's Dictionary. It sounds cynical and it is clever how you switched the parts that you labeled as the "essential" and "accidental" aspects of "academic publishing" (whatever that is). -raghu.
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