Thiel Awarded, Slams the Media

Peter Thiel received the Axel Springer Award from Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner and at the ceremony criticized parts of the media as a "left hate factory," he said.

Reposted by Mohan J. Dutta

15%

Scholar power: 15.9%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 46%, Political science 27%, Sociology 18%, Business 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Mohan J. Dutta	22%	52	15.9%

Formula for scholar power: sum of each reposter's field match × √reposter's h-index

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Scholar power

58.0%

13.9 h

1172

15.9%

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0.231

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by Erik Champion

Scholar power: 4.3%

Story's scientific field profile

Communication & Media Studies 46%, Political science 27%, Sociology 18%, Business 9%

Name	Field match	H-index	Scholar power
🎓 Erik Champion	3%	23	4.3%

Formula for scholar power: 3 × author's field match × √author's h-index

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46.0%

10.0 h

4.3%

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0.007

Formula for ranking score (post): scholar_power × max((total_reposts)^(1/3), 1) × (1 / max(hours_since_posted, 1)) × (raw_relevance)^3

Erik Champion

@erikmc.bsky.social

This also makes me concerned about the giant influence of Springer in academic publishing...

September 25, 2026 at 1:55 AM

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