

This is totally unrelated to the message, I think one of the embeds is causing this post to lag badly. Not sure whats going on but I can barely scroll through to read it, which I’ve never encountered on Lemmy before.
Related to the message: This is all relying on publication and citation metrics, which are metrics heavily criticized for the ease with which they can be manipulated due to their lack of substantive analysis. While Chinese universities are doing good work, they’re also even worse about the publish/perish culture than US universities are.

So… Hmm. Seems like Epstein & cronies just really wanted to meet him, and the headline is clickbait?