Alex Tarnava

They're so desperate now for reviewers that even though I have no formal education and I know we talked to, I'm actually in university right now because I have multiple PhD offers, but I have to get a bachelor's first, which I don't have.

But because of my publication record, I have been getting asked to review multiple publications that are supposed to only be for like professors and stuff.

Right.

but they can't find enough professors and people attached to academia to review all these papers.

So now they're getting desperate and they're emailing people like me who have a publication record.

And these aren't small publications.

These are Q1 journals with high impact factors and major publishers.

So there is a bit of a crisis in academic publishing and

Actually, I write substantially about this too.

Our entire perception of what is empirical evidence is flawed, but this is a big tangent.

It's based on the privatization of academic publishing that happened in the late 1950s.

Basically, when I developed the hydrogen tablets, I had been bouncing around from business to business, starting different businesses.

So,

I had offers for playing football and I had great grades, but I had a bit of an existential crisis as a teenager.

I was learning about finance.

I was learning about, you know, compounding interest.

I know we talked about this a little bit and none of it sat right with me.

And then I was thinking about how these various careers worked.

worked and i am highly autonomous and i do not i have what probably would be diagnosed as oppositional defiance disorder i don't want to be told what to do and so i thought to myself my biggest interest is philosophy after that it's science

But how do you actually pursue truth in philosophy or science when you're beholden to financing and bureaucracy and all of these oversights and overseers who are going to tell you what to do?