Parallel Science as a Challenge for Philosophy of Science
Aleksander Kobylarek – Sohaib Alam – Wahaj Unnisa Warda – Mergul Kulakhmetova
DOI: 10.18355/XL.2025.18.03.15
Abstract
The prestige of science in contact with parallel researchers loses its value, and the only values which remain are the obtained title and power. Parallel researchers do not care about spreading knowledge, seeking out the truth, or serving the scientific community. Their motive for action is very simple – keep the power and keep the submissives close. This type of “scholar” despite having an academic title is often market by the lack of any language different than their mother tongue, their achievements are based on constant recycling of one topic, which will be shared during conferences, in which, for decades the same group of different parallel scholars participate, convinced of their omnipotence and near divinity. Independent scholars with notable international achievements, speaking languages, cooperating with different study centres and publishing globally in the most recognisable scientific journals are, however, nothing to them, unless they show their submission. Then, and only then, will the road to scientific promotion be opened for them. Otherwise, they will stay nobodies, and their scientific achievements will be trampled on by the environment, with measurements used only nationally by a hermeneutic group of omniscents.
Key words: scholars, researchers, reviewers, prestige, university pathologies, journals
Pages: 220-229
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