Business in science: the strategy of forcing

Some companies in the digital and academic sectors put profits above integrity, using coercive tactics like creating author profiles without consent, mandating ORCID use, and selling personal data. ResearchGate, for instance, generates authors profiles without their knowledge or approval. Research Square, another commercial platform, requires authors to obligatory share manuscripts and private information prior to submit their work to journals. Meanwhile, tech firms and software makers engineer product incompatibilities, pushing users to upgrade or discard still-functional devices. Likewise, grant applications often depend on institutional ties, wrongly implying that valuable projects cannot thrive independently. Such restrictions can exclude innovative work that could benefit science and society. These practices, among others, appear to value financial gain over scientific integrity, transparency and ethics. Reconsideration is required.