As detailed in the complaint, the defendants’ alleged scheme has three main components. First, an agreement to fix the price of peer review services at zero that includes an agreement to coerce scholars into providing their labor for nothing by expressly linking their unpaid labor with their ability to get their manuscripts published in the defendants’ preeminent journals.

Second, the publisher defendants agreed not to compete with each other for manuscripts by requiring scholars to submit their manuscripts to only one journal at a time, which substantially reduces competition by removing incentives to review manuscripts promptly and publish meritorious research quickly.

Third, the publisher defendants agreed to prohibit scholars from freely sharing the scientific advancements described in submitted manuscripts while those manuscripts are under peer review, a process that often takes over a year. As the complaint notes, “From the moment scholars submit manuscripts for publication, the Publisher Defendants behave as though the scientific advancements set forth in the manuscripts are their property, to be shared only if the Publisher Defendant grants permission. Moreover, when the Publisher

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Well this is kind of funny that this came up soon after our convo:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a61937459/scientists-found-dark-electrons-in-solid-matter/

If you know it’s a process, then why would you criticize science for changing theories in response to new evidence?

Why aren’t you open to not knowing everything and that our knowledge could change?

The “God particle” is the Higgs boson. They found it with the LHC.

Right, the fermi lab peeps were skeptical about ever finding it. LHC proved it. You’re making my case.

This tells me you don’t just not know how science works; you don’t understand what science is.

Do you? It’s a process of finding out. Have you proven that stones don’t have an energy that we don’t have the equipment to measure? The black and white in this thread is now becoming funny while spouting that you believe in the process.

I’m having a hard time with this. We don’t know what we don’t know and it takes a lot of undeserved confidence to say anything is for sure. Fermilab never found the god particle and we’re pretty sure that exists. I’m not saying it’s true, but you guys are being a little over confident. Think about all of the theories and hypothesis that have been altered or completely changed over time.