100% agree. What I'm hoping to do is build a distributed journal where "membership" is paid for by owning a machine that stores the data on it for all the papers, and it only accepts papers written via reproducible research methods, with strict data provenance requirements, and publications are based on a solely registered report format, where grant applications (or at least the pertinent details therein) for the project must be submitted with the paper for review as well. All papers would be 100% open access by default with no open access fees, but a small publishing fee to compensate the peer reviewers and editors. Any thoughts on this Journal format?
Rant again:
Journals should be *lean* and non-profits, not these bloated monstrosities that suck value out of academia and continue to incentivize both the publish-or-perish mindset along with shit science that is poorly conducted and often relies on constructing post-hoc hypotheses to "build a better narrative".
As a researcher, I want/need to see all the stupid stuff you tried, even if there was no good reason to try it! I want all the failures until you succeeded available! Everyone knows behind the scenes that good science is like an Easter egg hunt, not a seamless research process that's linear, and by having all these details available to others, we prevent repeated work from wasting valuable resources!
Ugh, I just...I keep getting more disillusioned with academia the more I work in it. Here's hoping the little I can do helps even a small amount.
