Comments on: Why you can’t trust study abstracts https://labmuffin.com/why-you-cant-trust-study-abstracts/ The science of beauty, explained simply Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michelle Wong https://labmuffin.com/why-you-cant-trust-study-abstracts/#comment-329254 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 09:51:15 +0000 https://labmuffin.com/?p=15027#comment-329254 In reply to Tam.

Sorry this was an error on my part, corrected. It wasn’t “deliberately misleading”, not sure how you arrived at that conclusion?

]]> By: Tam https://labmuffin.com/why-you-cant-trust-study-abstracts/#comment-328507 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 11:37:05 +0000 https://labmuffin.com/?p=15027#comment-328507 “Authors have to pay the journal to publish the paper… but the journal gets to charge people to read it”. This isn’t true and is deliberately misleading. God knows publishing has its problems but this isn’t one of them. I don’t know if there are rare exceptions, but typically author publication charges (APCs) are charged for open access papers. I.e. the author pays and then the publisher can’t then put the paper behind a paywall. And for non-open-access papers/journals where readers need to pay, authors don’t. Either the author or the reader pays, not both.

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