Post by @FerRacimo@fediscience.org

2026-04-09 14:22 UTC

𝐇𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐠 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐄𝐥𝐬𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐫&#39;𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬: &quot;𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝&quot; If you&#39;re into science or medicine, you may have heard of journals like Cell or The Lancet. You might also be familiar with their parent company Elsevier / RELX, and their predatory practices: sometimes charging more than 10,000 dollars for publications whose running costs don&#39;t reach a tenth of that amount. What you might not know is that beyond pocketing public research money, Elsevier is also contributing to climate breakdown, pouring millions into tools and journals providing information about areas yet to be exploited for oil and gas extraction, as well as new technologies needed to dig up oil more efficiently in the Arctic and the Canadian tar sands. The motto of one of their online tools, Geofacets, used to be that, thanks to it, “exploration has never been more seamless.” But that&#39;s the tip of the iceberg. For years, RELX&#39;s political action committee REPAC has been providing support to climate denialist politicians in the US, preventing carbon mitigation bills from reaching a vote in Congress. I document this and other complicities of big academic publishers in my new book Science in Resistance, where I interview Kip Lyall, a former employee of the journal Cell, who was fired after asking too many questions about the company&#39;s fossil fuel ties. Excerpt below. 👇 #Science #OpenScience #Fossilfuels #Climate #Climate #Activism #Journal

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@FerRacimo@fediscience.org 2026-04-09 14:46

Want to fight back? A large coalition of academics and NGOs has initiated a legal grievance mechanism at the UN Human Rights Council, calling out Elsevier / RELX for the risks it poses to human rights as a direct consequence of its support for fossil fuel corporations, but it's currently under legal threats from Elsevier. You can find more about them here, as well as alternatives to collaborating with this company: https://www.climaterightscoalition.com/ https://stopelsevier.wordpress.com/

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@ml@ecoevo.social 2026-04-09 15:44

@FerRacimo #AltText4You Blind/low vision scientists cannot get this excerpt without true alt text instead of a caption. Therefore I'm adding it. Pages 117 & 118 in Chapter 6 "The Enemy Within". "pany was living up to its word, whether its operations were actually as sustainable as they were claimed to be. Yet the more questions he asked, the more he realized this could not be farther from the truth. In his investigations, Kip found that Elsevier has been giving the fossil fuel industry all"

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@TrimTab@mastodon.social 2026-04-09 17:15

@FerRacimo Becuase of course these ass hats have infiltrated the halls of science to sew their agenda. To all the good people of the world: it is not a conspiracy when they really are out to enslave us all and wipe democracy and civil society from the face of the earth. Trust in science is incompatible with the goals of the rich.

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