J.R.R. Tolkien's Ents are giant tree creatures that marched against deforestation and destroyed their opposition. The analogy here is that scholars are like Ents and that "we should take this as a moment to redefine the purpose of science as an instrument in the carrying forward of an ever-advancing civilization, with the greater accountability, transparency, diversity, breadth, and depth that means for us as individual scientists, institutions, funders, and publishers." But have we ever seen scholars and scientists rally forth to defeat their enemy? No, I don't think that's how it works.
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