The competition stems from a movement that began last summer, when Silicon Valley leaders and
prominent academics published an Open Letter on the Digital Economy.
► On Wednesday, also at ScienceInsider, David Malakoff reported that «[a] half - dozen
academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei - Hock Soon, a
prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they
published.»