In this field, in my field, in every field, textbook publishing is little more than a vortex of circular plagiarism.
The whole thing is an extractive scam. I haven't required textbooks for fifteen years. Fuck those greedheads.
https://www.psypost.org/psychology-textbooks-still-misrepresent-famous-experiments-and-controversial-debates/
#academia #highered
James Endres Howell
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