News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by chrisseaton on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:25PM (#16641447)
> They have to do it, whether they are on a stipend or not.

This is like saying that undergraduate students are unpaid for doing their homework.

It's part of their education to learn how to take part in the community by doing things like reviewing papers.

Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by arglebarnacle on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @03:30PM (#16641495)
Well sure, but nobody benefits financially or reputationally from an undergraduate student's homework. There's clearly some proportion of having an academic's PhD students do this type of work for them which would stop being educational and start being an abuse. The question is, is too much of this type of work being pawned off on grad students?
Re:Peer review: the end of an error? by bervlad on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:02PM (#16644882)
> It's part of their education to learn how to take part in the community by doing things like reviewing papers.

And this "part of their education to learn" keeps really cheap labor running science. Even postdocs are considered trainees, because they will always be learning because is part of their "job"