Well blow me down and call me a dishmop. Reed Elsevier, who I recently criticised for running arms exhibitions while publishing medical and other intellectual journals, and who were boycotted by medical authors, has folded. They are, according to this story, getting out of the arms exhibition business. And so they should.
I'd like to think my threat of philosophers boycotting Elsevier journals played a role, but then I'd also like to think that I was living in luxury in French Polynesia...
Late note: Hat tip to Grllscientist.
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If you have gone to college in the past 20 years, odds are you went to about a thousand more A Cappella concerts than you bargained for. I was an RA in college, and frankly by the end I started boycotting them as a matter of principle.
Apparently Reed Elsevier, publisher of countless academic journals such as Cell, Neuron, Current Biology and the Lancet, is also organizing arms exhibition shows.
My daughter works at our small town movie theater, and she's got the inside scoop: apparently the locals are boycotting The Golden Compass.
OK, some fluff...it seems that the Greek Neo-Pagans have received permission to worship in pagan temples.
One can only hope that you'll use your great power wisely.
With great power comes great opportunities...
So, do your eyes glow periodically now and do you suddenly find you are speaking with a bass-enhanced voice and harbouring ambitions of ruling the galaxy?
I have to confess, I wasn't doing much to help the boycott. But, if you go into mathematical physics, avoiding Elsevier is like avoiding Nitrogen.
I did feel guilty every time I used them, though.
you are very kind to me. a reader of mine tipped me off to this news -- it would have taken me at least 2 days to find it on my own!