Freedom of Science

Can there be effective formulas used in astronomy with force terms in them?
   
As far as I know, no effective formula used in astronomical calculations include a force term. In programming analogy “Force” is a string in a number field. No computations can be done with strings. Therefore, force terms are always written and then […]

Physicists are faced with the same problem as Madonna.1 They are exploited by a giant organism who takes their professional product without just compensation. The difference is in degree only.
The situation can be expressed mathematically like this
 
 
Madonna feels that the Big Label shortchanges her. Madonna wants Big Label to pay her $N but Big Label […]

By freedom of science I understand freedom to believe whatever one wants.
The worse offenders against freedom of science are physicists. Just like their cousin theological doctors physicists live to proselytize.
In physics lingo proselytizing is called popularization. Physicists set out to enlighten the public about “scientific method” as if what they do were science.
Proselytizing is built […]

The subject of plagiarism and peer review and journals came up again at Not Even Wrong. As usual there were interesting comments. Bee said that she was shocked. Others were shocked that she was shocked. An insider commented that plagiarism is rampant in the academia.
What is wrong with plagiarism?
Only in academia plagiarism is considered a […]

The two recent unified actions by mathematicians for freedom of science are noteworthy.
A group of mathematicians active in n-category café started a mission to break the monopoly of giant organisms who take mathematicians’ work for free and repackage it and sell it back to them with an exorbitant mark up.1 This is the old colonialist […]

 
The data for the map is taken from Alexandre Borovik’s petition as of August 15. Top five: United States (127), Turkey (106), UK (55), France (20), Germany (13).
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Freedom of Science field is getting hot! After recent activism by international mathematics community to save the Mathematics Village now mathematicians are taking a stand against the multinational organisms controlling the distribution of mathematical knowledge. 
 
John Baez wrote:
There is really no reason for us to donate our work to profit-making corporations who sell it back to […]

There is a freedom of science event unfolding. How appropriate that it is happening in the land where science was born: in the Aegean. In the neighborhood of Ephesus and Miletus.
Ali Nesin has been teaching mathematical summer schools for years in different parts of Anatolia, mostly in university campuses. This year he decided to turn […]

In this article called “How the LHC came to be,” Chris Llewellyn Smith proudly details the obscene bureaucratic ways of the Europeans. It seems that Europeans did not make any progress in their understanding of science since the Middle Ages. Europeans still negotiate the last penny they could extract from their traditional enemies for their […]

Doctors are free content providers for the Big Media. They give away their intellectual property to the Big Media who packages them into ridiculously expensive journals and sells them to Universities where these Doctors work.
The method is familiar from Colonialism. The British colonialist bought raw material on the cheap and packaged it back to the […]