Condemning Elsevier's latest attack on libre scientific publishing.

When the weak resist arrogant power, they have no obligation to treat all arrogant powerful entities alike. It makes sense to single out Elsevier for a boycott.

Thus, I suggest to scientists, when asked to review an article in an Elsevier journal, that you respond by telling the editors that you won't do this for Elsevier. You can say it's nothing personal but you think that aiding Elsevier is bad for science.

Elsevier is also trying to shut down sites that provide access to scholarly articles.

Please do not use the smear term "pirate" to describe the sharing forbidden by companies such as Elsevier.

The European Commission is pushing a "compromise" to undermine network neutrality.

I suppose they mean that the citizens should cede rights to "compromise" with the desires of the ISPs. The whole idea is misguided, and reflects the nondemocratic nature of the European Commission.

People who have children tend to downgrade their concern about global heating. They don't want to think about how their children will make the problem worse, or what they are probably condemning those children to suffer.

If teachers are aware that a student comes from a poor family, they tend to lower their estimate of that student's abilities.

Unconscious bias also operates based on gender roles: teachers systematically underestimate how good girls are at math.

Citizens have petitioned a judge to order arrest of the thug that shot Tamar Rice dead.