Reminder: Access to scientific knowledge is a fundamental human right, encoded in the UN Declaration of Human Rights Paywalls from commercial publishers like SpringerNature, Elsevier, and Wiley violate these rights. Your rights. Open Access is a social justice issue.
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Yes! At the risk of being self promotional (sorry), I wrote a paper analyzing access to biomedical knowledge through a human rights lens. “Excluding the poor from accessing the biomedical literature: a rights violation that impedes global health,” at https://cdn2.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/125/2013/07/4-Yamey.pdf …
These people aren't going to be reading the medical literature anyway. Low knowledge is a demand problem, not supply.
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Sorry, but this is plain wrong. People do want to read the medical literature. Small example: https://whoneedsaccess.org/ And you're conflating the 'lack of demand' with the right to deny access too. People should have the right to read what they want, should they choose to.
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It's not plain wrong, dude. Internet made most knowledge free, and there is no notable change in how much stuff people know in general. Demand problem, not supply problem. Normal people can't understand medical literature. Open access is not going to help them much.
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If the internet made most knowledge free, then why is around 75% of all scholarly research still behind private paywalls? And saying normal people don't understand the med lit is generally offensive (and wrong), and again not an excuse to deny them the right to access.
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I'd say is both a demand AND supply problem.
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