What does &quot;publication&quot; mean in an Internet Age when anyone can publish anything?<p>If you mean &quot;vetted by a tiny handful of fallibly-human organizations such as Nature and Cell who may or may not decide to accept your paper regardless of its actual merit and based mostly on how &#x27;hip&#x27; the research is,&quot; well then we&#x27;re back to the hazing&#x2F;cliquey-clusterfuck thing again.<p>&quot;Grants&quot; seem equivalent to &quot;angel investments&quot; in the startup world... which seem a lot saner, btw.<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;great_papers_that_have_been_rejected" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blogs.sciencemag.org&#x2F;pipeline&#x2F;archives&#x2F;2013&#x2F;09&#x2F;10&#x2F;gre...</a>