Comments on: Updated: Ski resort paper hits a (media) mogul and gets retracted

By: David Roberts

David Roberts — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:35:05 +0000

In the light of the Elsevier boycott at costofknowledge.com I (slightly tongue-in-cheek) proposed the following subversive action, not dissimilar to Kenneth Field has done:

1. Submit article to Elsevier journal
2. Receive acceptance email/letter
3. Respond with a retraction and reasons why
4. Post article, acceptance and retraction letters online

This way you can be accepted by the journal of choice, and also avoid publishing with the publisher one wishes to avoid.

It would take a brave soul to do this, though.

By: Fernando Pessoa

Fernando Pessoa — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 10:00:26 +0000

I cannot find Mornington Crescent on the new Underground map.

Yours frustratedly!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game)

By: ivanoransky

ivanoransky — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:28:21 +0000

Good Q. According to Wikipedia:

The company was founded as Environmental Systems Research Institute in 1969 as a land-use consulting firm.

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:28:08 +0000

Environmental Systems Research Institute

By: puzzled monkey

puzzled monkey — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:25:34 +0000

What is the expansion of ESRI? I clicked on the link and they spell it Esri, but that doesn’t help much.
And why no Western Blots? (heheh.)

By: ivanoransky

ivanoransky — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:24:29 +0000

Thanks for the question. Please see the updates to the post, following an email from Kenneth Field.

By: omnologos

omnologos — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:46:29 +0000

do they acknowledge the fact that they were ‘inspired by’ the Underground maps? Even in the logo…