{"id":152180,"date":"2026-05-29T12:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152180"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T12:30:06","slug":"young-frustrated-chinese-stem-phds-turn-to-publishing-satirical-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152180","title":{"rendered":"Young, frustrated Chinese STEM PhDs turn to publishing satirical journals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostI did not pay much attention during maths and science classes in school. I could never get into the mindset for STEM study, but I can see there is comfort in the fact that the ratio of a circle\u2019s circumference to its diameter will always be pi, or that the quadratic formula will always produce the right answer when applied correctly. I envied my many STEM friends for their skills, their fields of certainty and practicality.<br \/>\nBut behind the curtain, beneath the veneer of any parent\u2019s envy, their&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/china-opinion\/article\/3355158\/young-frustrated-chinese-stem-phds-turn-publishing-satirical-journals?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostI did not pay much attention during maths and science classes in school. I could never get into the mindset for STEM study, but&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}