Why not make a 'Do not email list'?
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Why wouldn't a nationwide 'do not email' list work?
I would think this is even more feasible and enforceable than the 'do not call' list that people are trying to establish to combat telemarketers.
Pass a law that unsolicited email sent to an address on the list is subject to a fine.
If the spammers are sending out multi-thousands of emails, even a fine of $50 per complaint would soon put spammers out of business. The fine could be split between the 'spamee' and some agency to enforce the spam law. I would think that there are enough unemployed people with the skills to staff such an agency, given the state of the nation's economy.
The spammers have to send contact information if they are trying to sell you something, thus there is an easy way to find who is responsible for the spam.
I don't know what kind of science you have experienced, but peer-review is most certainly done by peers in the bio-sciences. Walk into any competent academic's office in the bio-sciences and I guarantee you there will be at least one manuscript for reviewing in the inbox.
There is still a fair amount of crap that gets published that probably shouldn't, but at least the peer review process weeds out a goodly amount of unsupported conjecture (eg "that's why science is diying [sic]") from the better journals.
PS - Science is not a model, it is a process that creates models. It will not be exhausted so long as humans have both intelligence and creativity on their side.
Likely through a combined MD/PhD program. The MD/PhD was set up as a way to overcome most of the shabby research that a lot of MD's do. It attracts overacheivers who want more cache than a single degree (and the fellowships are typically $10-$15K higher). Some programs are set up on split schedules. Two years med school, 2-3 years PhD style (more style than substance, but that is another issue...) and then completion of med school for the MD. The PhD is granted as soon as a thesis is defended. The split is set this way ostensibly to integrate the medical training with the research training, but in reality to keep those wide-eyed MD/PhD students from stopping at the MD level and simply heading into practice rather than clinical research.
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Why wouldn't a nationwide 'do not email' list work?
I would think this is even more feasible and enforceable than the 'do not call' list that people are trying to establish to combat telemarketers.
Pass a law that unsolicited email sent to an address on the list is subject to a fine.
If the spammers are sending out multi-thousands of emails, even a fine of $50 per complaint would soon put spammers out of business. The fine could be split between the 'spamee' and some agency to enforce the spam law. I would think that there are enough unemployed people with the skills to staff such an agency, given the state of the nation's economy.
The spammers have to send contact information if they are trying to sell you something, thus there is an easy way to find who is responsible for the spam.
I don't know what kind of science you have experienced, but peer-review is most certainly done by peers in the bio-sciences. Walk into any competent academic's office in the bio-sciences and I guarantee you there will be at least one manuscript for reviewing in the inbox. There is still a fair amount of crap that gets published that probably shouldn't, but at least the peer review process weeds out a goodly amount of unsupported conjecture (eg "that's why science is diying [sic]") from the better journals.
PS - Science is not a model, it is a process that creates models. It will not be exhausted so long as humans have both intelligence and creativity on their side.
Likely through a combined MD/PhD program. The MD/PhD was set up as a way to overcome most of the shabby research that a lot of MD's do. It attracts overacheivers who want more cache than a single degree (and the fellowships are typically $10-$15K higher). Some programs are set up on split schedules. Two years med school, 2-3 years PhD style (more style than substance, but that is another issue...) and then completion of med school for the MD. The PhD is granted as soon as a thesis is defended. The split is set this way ostensibly to integrate the medical training with the research training, but in reality to keep those wide-eyed MD/PhD students from stopping at the MD level and simply heading into practice rather than clinical research.