Elsevier sells land mines.
No, really.
I've been corresponding with the publishers Reed Elsevier about their involvement in the arms trade. Reed Elsevier is an academic publisher, which also has a subsidary company, Spearhead Exhibitions, which hosts DSEi - the world's largest arms fair. You can see what I've written to Reed Elsevier, and what they've written back, elsewhere on this blog (one, two, three, four).
Ideolect has a couple more recent followup posts. See also Crooked Timber and UK IndyMedia.
Among other things, Reed Elsevier is the publisher of Lancet, Lexis Nexis, and quite a few overpriced mathematics and theoretical computer science journals.
Lovely. Just lovely.
[first link via 39orangestreet]
Incidentally, Lord of War (the movie) was just out.
Posted by: Hung Q. Ngo | September 19, 2005 at 02:23 AM
So, is it time for CGTA to die?
Posted by: | September 22, 2005 at 09:02 PM
Errr ... isn't your position somewhat undermined by the obvious link to DARPA Defense Science Office funding ...? Just a thought - but go on, think about it.
Posted by: | September 25, 2005 at 05:27 AM
Let's see...taking money from the Defense department to fund basic research, versus giving money to a publisher to sell weapons.
Sorry, I don't see the conflict at all.
Posted by: JeffE | September 26, 2005 at 10:34 AM