Wenn es denn der Wahrheitsfindung dient

Fritz Teufels Spruch „Wenn es denn der Wahrheitsfindung dient

als Reaktion auf die richterliche Aufforderung, sich zu erheben – ist heute eines der bekanntesten geflügelten Worte aus der deutschen Rechtsgeschichte. Weniger bekannt ist sein Kopfstand vor der Anklagebank aus demselben Anlass, mit der nachgelieferten Begründung: „Sie haben ja nicht gesagt, wie herum ich aufstehen soll.“


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Recherche in Zeitungen

Die Recherche in Zeitungen vor 1945 wird sich dramatisch verbessern, so Michael Knoche

Mit einem Mal lassen sich historische Sachverhalte ermitteln, die früher entweder gar nicht – weil das Blättern in Zeitungen der Suche nach einer Nadel im Heuhaufen glich – oder in dieser Breite nicht möglich war. Kein Mensch konnte Hunderte von Zeitungen im Original auf eine Fragestellung auswerten, allein schon wegen des fragilen Erhaltungszustands der meisten Blätter.

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Wissenschaftsfreiheit in Berlin

Die Wissenschaftsfreiheit sei gefährdet, so das Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) 2024

Aus verschiedenen Einrichtungen sei zu hören, dass Einladungen an Gäste und Referenten wegen deren politischen Positionen oder deren Identität zurückgezogen wurden.

Politik mischt sich immer mehr auch in die universitäre Selbstverwaltung ein – so zuletzt auch bei der FU Präsidentin Rauch.

Bei der Berliner CDU stieß die Entscheidung Rauchs, am Amt der TU-Präsidentin festzuhalten, auf scharfe Kritik. CDU-Generalsekretärin Ottilie Klein erneuerte am Donnerstag in der rbb24 Abendschau ihre Rücktrittsforderung.

TAZ 2023 : Berliner Unis üben heftige Kritik an Bildungsministerin Stark-Watzinger

Günter M. Ziegler, Präsident der Freien Universität, sagte dem Tagesspiegel, insgesamt vermisse er einen „adäquaten Umgang“ der Ministerin mit den Protesten und der heiklen und schwierigen Lage der Universitäten.

DLF2022

Auslöser war der geplante Auftritt der Doktorandin Marie-Luise Vollbrecht zunächst bei der Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften am 2. Juli – und die Absage durch die Hochschulleitung. In dem nun nachgeholten, zuvor aber auch bereits im Internet veröffentlichten Vortrag referiert die Biologin darüber, dass es – so die von ihr vermittelte Lehrmeinung ihres Fachs – nur zwei Geschlechter gibt.


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Steht doch alles auf Wikipedia?

Wer sagt: Man muss nicht mehr viel wissen, weil man alles nachschlagen kann, müsste doch auch sagen: Man muss keine Witze verstehen, weil man sie sich erklären lassen kann.
[…]
Um viele Witze zu verstehen, muss man etwas wissen. Um Memes oder launige Kurznachrichtentexte zu verstehen, muss man fast immer deren Hintergrund und Zusammenhang kennen. Das ist – oft, immer? – auch ein Wissen, dass für Gruppenbildung sorgt, es trennt diejenigen, die das kapieren, und die anderen, für die das unverständlich bleibt.

gefunden bei Herr Rau


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0xdeadbeef

Having many tor exit addresses with this server name in my log files, I looked up the meaning – i0xdeadbeef actually spells words as opposed to random hex values and was more likely to induce a memory out-of-range fault as it was out of the address range of systems in the last century ;-)


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Some observations about science administration

I’ve witnessed an ongoing expansion of science administration personnel at local, national, and international levels. What’s more concerning is that this administration is becoming increasingly disconnected from the day-to-day realities at the laboratory bench. This phenomenon is commonly referred to as Parkinson’s Law, first elucidated 1955 by C. Northcote Parkinson (not to be confused with James Parkinson).

In summary, employees like to talk to each other in the administration office, they want more subordinates (and not competitors from the lab) while even little work is expanded to fill the time available for its completion.

After Parkinson, the annual increase in staff, regardless of variations in workload, ranges from 5.2% to 6.6%. He even goes so far as to claim that core tasks could be completely eliminated without the administration shrinking as a result.

Parkinson formulated this in the 1950s. In modern administrations, new terms have been introduced, such as Controlling, New Management Models, business indicators, etc. Often, the proportion of staff in these areas of work increases, while for the actual core tasks, staff remains stagnant or even decreases.


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How to integrate wordpress in another website

In another website constructed more than a decade ago, I integrated WordPress pages just as iframe .This was quite common at that time but not very elegant as all the formatting had to be adjusted to the parent site for a coherent view. When revising the website last week I have chosen a radical different approach by completely silencing the WP output using a plugin

<?php
/** Plugin Name: shutup **/
add_action( 'template_redirect', function() {
  wp_die( __( 'disabled' ) ); 
});
?>

WP pages and posts are retrieved in the main website using the WP API only

$api_url = 'https://www.DOMAIN.de/BLOGNAME/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/xxxx';
$response = file_get_contents($api_url);
$posts = json_decode($response);
echo $posts->content->rendered;

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Scientific myths

Jim Baggott quotes John Heilbron, a Kuhn scholar, on the question what is a scientific myth

A scientific myth is not produced by accident or error. It requires effort. “To qualify as a myth, a false claim should be persistent and widespread,” Heilbron said in a 2014 conference talk. “It should have a plausible and assignable reason for its endurance, and immediate cultural relevance,” he noted. “Although erroneous or fabulous, such myths are not entirely wrong, and their exaggerations bring out aspects of a situation, relationship or project that might otherwise be ignored.”


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München Tempo 30

Ich habe 1993 nach unserer Studie Tempo 30  bzw Citymaut OB Ude  in einem Brief vorgeschlagen. Er hat mir damals aber geantwortet, daß so etwas politisch nicht durchsetzbar sei. 31 Jahre später ist es aber nun so weit…

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/muenchen-tempo-30-mittlerer-ring-dieselfahrverbot-beschluss-infos-1.6566199

Ob es wirklich eine gute Idee war? Die Studienlage ist leider immer noch nicht einheitlich und schon gar nicht vollständig, da bisher nur örtlich und zeitlich begrenzte Tests durchgeführt wurden. Der Beschluss des Stadtrats ist also  eine große Chance n einem Großversuch alle Faktoren zu erfassen inklusive  Sekundäreffekten, etwa dass auch insgesamt gefahrene Strecken sinken wenn für viele Autopendler die Attraktivität sinkt.  Warum nicht gleich auch noch die Entfernungspauschale streichen?

Quelle: https://oa.upm.es/13681/1/INVE_MEM_2011_115211.pdf

16.5.2024

www.sueddeutsche.de

Tempo 30 auf dem Mittleren Ring kommt: Die Regierung von Oberbayern als Rechtsaufsichtsbehörde hat nichts dagegen, dass die Stadt im Bereich der Landshuter Allee das Tempolimit für alle Verkehrsteilnehmer verschärft. Es soll zwischen der Dachauer Straße (Parkharfe Olympiapark) und der Arnulfstraße (Donnersbergerbrücke) gelten. Mit der Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung soll die Abgasbelastung an der Landshuter Allee so verringert werden, dass der seit Jahren überschrittene Grenzwert für Stickstoffdioxid (NO₂) eingehalten wird.


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The Downside of Open Access Journals

Mikael LaaksoLisa MatthiasNajko Jahn
Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals.
JASIST 2021;72:1099-1112

The preservation of the scholarly record has been a point of concern since the beginning of knowledge production. … We found 174 OA journals that, through lack of comprehensive and open archives, vanished from the web between 2000 and 2019

Zenodo has the full dataset

Journal NamePublisherDiscipline
International Journal of Information TechnologyWorld Academy of Science, Engineering and TechnologyComputer Science
Journal of Mundane BehaviorMillersville UniversitySociology
Complexity InternationalJohnston Center, Charles Sturt UniversityComplex Systems
Pharmaceutical ReviewsPharmainfo.netPharmacology
Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska - Sectio D. MedicinaUniwersytet Marii Curie-SklodowskiejMedicine
Essays in EducationColumbia College * Department in EducationEducation
Peace Tourism JournalInternational Centre for Peace Through Tourism ResearchPOLITICAL SCIENCE - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, TRAVEL AND TOURISM
Journal of Global Social Work PracticeDominican University * Graduate School of Social WorkSOCIAL SERVICES AND WELFARE
International Quarterly of Sport ScienceHungarian Society of Sport ScienceSPORTS AND GAMES
Public Knowledge JournalPublic Knowledge JournalPolitical science
Hamburg Review of Social SciencesHamburg Review of Social SciencesSocial Sciences
Doping JournalDoping JournalBIOLOGY - BIOCHEMISTRY, PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY
eMindsUniversidad de Oviedo * Departamento de InformaticaCOMMUNICATIONS, COMPUTERS
CrossroadsAlta Scuola di Economia e Relazioni InternazionaliBUSINESS AND ECONOMICS, LAW, POLITICAL SCIENCE - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Electronic Journal of Organizational VirtualnessJournal of Organizational VirtualnessCOMPUTERS - INTERNET
AntePodiumVictoria University of Wellington * School of Political Science and International RelationsPOLITICAL SCIENCE
Durham Anthropological JournalUniversity of Durham * Department of AnthropologyANTHROPOLOGY
Studencheskii Nauchnyi ZhurnalStudencheskii Nauchnyi ZhurnalSCIENCES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
Learning ExchangeUniversity of WestminsterEDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION
Romanian Medical Reviews & ResearchViata MedicalaMEDICAL SCIENCES
Kuwait Radiology JournalMedicalMantra Information SystemsMEDICAL SCIENCES - RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Transformations (Atlanta)Associated Colleges of the SouthHUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
AfroeuropaUniversidad de Leon * Departamento de Filologia ModernaLinguistics
IBScientific Journal of ScienceIBScientific Publishing GroupEngineering
Anatolian Journal of Obstetrics & GynecologyAlkim Basin Yayin Ltd. ti.Gynecology and Obstetrics
Journal of Education for International DevelopmentEducational Quality Improvement ProgramEducation
Rocky Mountain Communication ReviewUniversity of Utah * Department of CommunicationCOMMUNICATIONS
BiomirrorXinnovem Publishing GroupBiology
Journal of Advanced Pharmaceutical ResearchPharmaceutical Research FoundationPharmacology
Working Papers in Art and Design (Online)University of Hartfordshire * Department of Design and Foundation StudiesArt
Neurobiology of LipidsNeurobiology of LipidsBIOLOGY - PHYSIOLOGY, MEDICAL SCIENCES
Journal of Dagaare StudiesUniversity of Hong KongHISTORY - HISTORY OF AFRICA, LINGUISTICS, LITERATURE
International Journal of Pharmacy EducationSamford University * McWhorter School of PharmacyEDUCATION - HIGHER EDUCATION, PHARMACY AND PHARMACOLOGY
International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research (IJPBR)PharmSciDirect PublicationsPharmacology
School of Advanced Technologies. Electronic JournalAsian Institute of TechnologyComputers
Lyon Pharmaceutique (Online)Association des Pharmaciens - Anciens Eleves - Amis de la Faculte de Pharmacie de LyonMedicine
St. Francis Journal of MedicineSt. Francis Medical CenterMedicine
Ciência & Tecnologia dos MateriaisSociedade Portuguesa de MateriaisGeneral and Civil Engineering
Social Science Paper PublisherUniversity of Western Ontario, Department of SociologySocial Sciences
The Carleton University Student Journal of PhilosophyCarleton University, Department of PhilosophyPhilosophy
African Journal of Environmental Assessment and ManagementAJEAM/RAGÉEEnvironmental Sciences
Cal Poly Journal of Interdisciplinary StudiesCalifornia State Polytechnic UniversityEducation
Philosophic NatureExcogitation & Innovation LaboratoryScience (General)
Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology & HematologySan Lucas MedicalMedicine
International Journal of Signal ProcessingWorld Academy of Science, Engineering and TechnologyElectrical and Nuclear Engineering
Advances in mathematical and computational methodsInformation Engineering Research InstituteMathematics
Social Science Letters (SSL)Information Engineering Research InstituteSocial Science
International journal of swimming kineticsInternational Society of Swimming CoachingSports physiology, sports medicine
Open source science journalAcademy of Economic SciencesComputer Science
Revista sujeto, subjetividad y culturaSchool of psychology University of Arts and Social Sciences, ARCIS, Santiago de ChilePsychology
Biotechnology and health sciencesQazvin Qazvin University of Medical SciencesBiotechnology and Health Sciences
European Journal of Economic & Political StudiesFaith University
Technológia VdelavaniaZdruženie SlovdidacEducation
Mukaddimah: jurnal studi Islam dan informasi PTAISKopertais Wilayah IIIReligion
New theology reviewLiturgical PressTheology
Journal of Medical Sciences ResearchJournal of Medical Sciences Research (J M S R)Medicine
Revista de Educao e de Tecnologia Aplicadas AeronuticaComando da AeronuticaTransportation
Patria Grande : Revista Centroamericana de EducacinCoordinacin Educativa y Cultural CentroamericanaEducation
Ovid, Myth and (Literary) ExileOvidius University PressLanguages and Literatures
Journal of eLiteracyUniversity of GlasgowLibrary and Information Science, e-literacy
Informacini Technologij Taikymas vietimo SistemojeKauno Kolegija (Kaunas University of Applied Sciences)Education
Perspectives in Oral SciencesUniversidade PositivoDentistry
Acta MonographicaActa MonographicaSCIENCES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
Journal of Advances in Developmental ResearchGujarat Vidyapeeth UniversitySociology
Interdipendenze : Rivista di Teoria e Ricerca Sociale, Studi Ecologici, EtnoscienzeSociet di Etnosociologia e Ricerca Sociale (S.E.Ri.S)Environmental Sciences --- Sociology
LianesLianes AssociationSociology
E-journal of Reservoir EngineeringPetroleum Journals OnlineMining and Metallurgy
Social Justice in ContextInstitute for Social Justice, East Carolina UniversitySocial Sciences
Educao Profissional : Cincia e TecnologiaServio Nacional de Aprendizagem Comercial do Distrito FederalScience (General) --- Education
SRX BiologyScholarly Research ExchangeBiology
More than Thought : a Scholarly Literary Journal Devoted to ConsciousnessMore than ThoughtLanguages and Literatures
European Journal of Clinical & Medical OncologySan Lucas MedicalOncology
European Neurological JournalSan Lucas MedicalNeurology
Journal of NeuroparasitologyAshdin PublishingInternal medicine --- Neurology
Scholars' Research JournalWolters KluwerBiotechnology
Arquivstica.netArquivstica.netLibrary and Information Science
Emergent Australasian PhilosophersDean Goorden and Matthew Paul, Ed. & Pub.Philosophy
Journal of Coagulation DisordersSan Lucas MedicalInternal medicine
Comunicaciones de la Sociedad Malacolgica del UruguaySociedad Malacolgica del UruguayZoology
Ciencias Sociales OnlineUniversidad de Vina del Mar * Escuela de Ciencias SocialesSocial Sciences
eJournal of Biological SciencesEJARR PublishingBiology
Global TourismGlobal Tourism Consulting and TrainingGeography --- Social Sciences
Translocations : Irish Migration, Race and Social Transformation ReviewDublin City UniversityMigration --- History
Cancerologa : Revista del Instituto Nacional de CancerologaInstituto Nacional de Cancerologa de MxicoOncology
AnalyticaAnalyticaPhilosophy
Open Aging JournalBentham openInternal medicine
Research in BiotechnologySchool of Bio Sciences and Technology VIT UniversityBiotechnology
War Crimes, Genocide and Crimes Against HumanityPenn State AltoonaSocial and Public Welfare --- Law
Research Journal of International StudiesEuropean Journals, Inc.Social Sciences --- Political Science
Journal of Preventive MedicineInstitute of Public Health, IasiPublic Health
Middle East StudiesMiddle East StudiesSocial Sciences
Journal of Forensic AccountingR.T. Edwards, Inc.Accounting
Gendernye IssledovaniKharkov Center for Gender StudiesGender Studies
Electronic Journal of Environmental, Agricultural and Food ChemistryUniversidade de VigoNutrition and Food Sciences --- Agriculture (General)
Electronic Journal of Literacy through ScienceUniversity of California, DavisEducation
Tierra Tropical : Sostenibilidad, Ambiente y SociedadUniversidad EARTHEnvironmental Sciences
Information Technology, Learning, and Performance JournalOrganizational Systems Research AssociationComputer Science --- Education
International Diabetes MonitorMedical Forum InternationalInternal medicine
Journal of Azerbaijani StudiesKhazar UniversitySocial Sciences
Nordic NotesFlinders University AdelaideEthnology --- History
Journal of dentistry, oral medicine and dental educationScientific journals internationalDentistry
Journal of Research Methods and Methodological IssuesScientific journals internationalSTATISTICS
Journal of reviews internationalScientific journals internationalPUBLISHING AND BOOK TRADE
Journal of unconventional theories and researchScientific Journals InternationalMultidisciplinary
Journal of Sports & Recreation Research and EducationScientific journals internationalSports education
Journal of dissertationsScientific journals internationalHUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
Journal of interdisciplinary & multidisciplinary researchScientific journals internationalMultidisciplinary
Journal of economics, banking and financeScientific journals internationalEconomics
Journal of international and cross-cultural studiesScientific journals internationalCultural studies
Journal of business and public affairsScientific journals internationalBusiness
Journal of multicultural, gender and minority studiesScientific journals internationalSociology
Journal of psychiatry, psychology and mental healthScientific journals internationalPsychology
Journal of nursing, allied health & health educationScientific journals internationalNursing
Scientific journals internationalScientific journals internationalMultidisciplinary
Journal of agricultural, food, and environmental sciencesScientific journals internationalAgriculture
Journal of creative workScientific journals international
Journal of education and human developmentScientific journals internationalEducation
Journal of law, ethics and intellectual propertyScientific journals international
Journal of literature, language and linguisticsScientific journals internationalLinguistics
Journal of engineering, computing, and architectureScientific journals internationalEngineering
Journal of medical and biological sciencesScientific journals internationalMedical
Journal of humanities and social sciencesScientific journals internationalSocial Science and Humanities
Open Journal of HematologyRoss Science PublishersMedical
International Journal of Marketing PracticesAsian Institute of Advance Research and StudiesEconomics
Genomics and quantitative geneticsKnoblauch PublishingBiology
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Frontier ResearchInternational Journal of Pharmaceutical Frontier ResearchPharmacology
Infopreneurship Journal"This journal is privately published online by Mahmood Khosrowjerdi in Iran."Economics
World of Sciences JournalEngineers PressScience and knowledge in general. Organization of intellectual work
Indicios (La Rioja)Universidad Nacional de La Rioja, Instituto Criminalístico de La RiojaCriminal law
Journal of Applied Technology in Environmental SanitationDepartment of Environmental Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) Surabaya, and Indonesian Society of Sanitary and Environmental Engineers (IATPI) JakartaEcology
Journal of Applied Phytotechnology in Environmental SanitationDepartment of Environmental Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) Surabaya, and Indonesian Society of Sanitary and Environmental Engineers (IATPI) JakartaEcology
Biosciences InternationalInfofacilityBiological Sciences
Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical ScienceJournal of Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical SciencePharmacy
Journal of Clinical & Experimental ResearchSaujas PublicationsMedicine
Journal of Current Pharmaceutical ResearchMedipoeiaPharmacy
Latin American Journal of ConservationProCATZoology
Plant Science FeedLifescifeed VenturesBiological Sciences
International Journal of Research in Computer SciencesWhite Globe PublicationsComputer Science
Asian journal of pharmaceutical and biological researchYoung Pharmaceutical and Biological Scientist GroupPharmacology
Buletin Teknik Elektro dan InformatikaUniversitas Ahmad DahlanEngineering
Applied mathematics in engineering, management and technologyIran Water and Power Resources CompanyMathematics
International Journal of Computer and Distributed SystemsCouncil for Innovative ResearchComputer Science
International Journal of Management and StrategyInternational Journal of Management and StrategyManagement
TheHealthLahore Institute of Public HealthHealth
Amnesia VivaceCultural Association Amnesia VivaceFine Arts
Alfa Redi : Revista de Derecho InformáticoComunidad Alfa-RediLaw
Journal of Chinese Clinical MedicineHong Kong Medical Technologies PublisherMedicine
International Journal of Design ComputingUniversity of SydneyEngineering
Polar BioscienceNational Institute of Polar ResearchBiology
Journal of MultimediaAcademy PublisherComputer Science
Transplantationsmedizin: Organ der Deutschen TransplantationsgesellschaftPabst Science PublishersInternal medicine
Wildlife Biology in PracticePortuguese Wildlife SocietyEcology
Great Lakes GeographerDept. of Geography, University of Western OntarioGeography
Computer Science Master ResearchUniversitatea Politehnica din BucurestiCOMPUTERS
Romanian Review of European Governance StudiesUniversitatea "Babes-Bolyai" * Centrul "Altiero Spinelli" de Studiere a Organizarii Europene (CASSOE)PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
International Journal of VLSI and Signal Processing ApplicationsInnovation Science PublicationsCOMPUTERS
SimbiosisUniversidad de Puerto Rico * Escuela Graduada de Ciencias y Tecnologias de la InformacionLibrary and Information Science
International Journal of Contemporary Business StudiesAcademy of Knowledge ProcessBUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Journal of Postcolonial Cultures and SocietiesGuild of Independent ScholarsHUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS, SOCIAL SCIENCES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
E- Journal of DentistryE - Journal of DentistryMEDICAL SCIENCES - DENTISTRY
Journal of Academic and Applied StudiesInternational Association for AcademiansEDUCATION
Neues CurriculumDeutscher Akademischer Austausch DienstEDUCATION, HUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
Contemporary Online Language Education JournalAkdeniz UniversitesiLiterature
Open GovernmentLiverpool John Moores University * Faculty of Business & LawPOLITICAL SCIENCE - CIVIL RIGHTS
International Journal of Drug Formulation and ResearchInternational Journal of Drug Formulation and ResearchPharmacology
European Journal of ePracticeP A U EducationInternational Law
Economics and Finance ReviewGlobal Research SocietyEconomics
Revista Panamericana de InfectologiaAsociacion Panamericana de InfectologiaPublic Health
Research Center for Educational Technology. JournalResearch Center for Educational Technology, Kent State UniversityEDUCATION - TEACHING METHODS AND CURRICULUM
Molecular and Cellular PharmacologyLumiText PublishingPharmacology
NeoAmericanistUniversity of Western Ontario * Centre for American StudiesHUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
The Electronic Journal of Literacy Through ScienceUniversity of California, Davis * School of EducationEDUCATION
Calicut Medical JournalC M C Alumni AssociationMedical Sciences
PhilicaPhilicaHUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS, SCIENCES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS, SOCIAL SCIENCES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS, TECHNOLOGY: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
ReconstructionReconstructionHUMANITIES: COMPREHENSIVE WORKS
RexterCentrum pro Bezpecnostni a Strategicka Studia o.s.Political Science

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Publication ethics at MDPI is inacceptable

MDPI changes the content of a published paper even without any correction note – read yourself

We are completely loosing track if “deemed by the Editorial Office to be a reasonable request” is leading to modifications of text, images or data. And this happened already as I learned recently.


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