A recent study conducted by Professor Vincent Lariviere from the University of Montreal’s School of Library and...

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A recent study conducted by Professor Vincent Lariviere from the University of Montreal’s School of Library and Information Science, and a number of other researchers, found that nearly all major scientific papers are controlled by the same six corporations.

“Overall, the major publishers control more than half of the market of scientific papers both in the natural and medical sciences and in the social sciences and humanities. Furthermore, these large commercial publishers have huge sales, with profit margins of nearly 40%. While it is true that publishers have historically played a vital role in the dissemination of scientific knowledge in the print era, it is questionable whether they are still necessary in today’s digital era,” Lariviere said.

The researchers sifted through tons of studies that were published between the years of 1973 and 2013 and found that the studies were overwhelmingly published by the same six publishers. The publishers named in the study are ACS, Reed Elsevier, Sage, Taylor & Francis, Springer, and Wiley Blackwell.

What does this mean for the #Cannabis community? It means that the information given to us is bias in nature. Funded by large corporations looking out for profit margins means that the information presented to us is tainted with money. These are the publishers that have created such a mass amount of disinformation surrounding the marijuana topic that millions were incarcerated for a plant!

The more you dig, the more you find. The system is corrupt and perhaps it's time to hit the #Reset button on the whole thing. Is it time for independent institutions to have their voice heard?

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http://www.trueactivist.com/study-finds-nearly-all-scientific-papers-controlled-by-six-corporations/