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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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.
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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“Normal people can't understand medical literature” is a shocking, patronizing, & false statement. When parents have a seriously sick kid, let me tell you: THEY WANT, DEMAND, & HAVE THE RIGHT TO ACCESS medical articles. They paid for that research. It was done 4 public benefit.
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I agree with the economic arguments for open access, but if you think normal people can read and understand technical medical literature, you are extremely mistaken. Have you read anything about people's comprehension levels? Most doctors can't read medical studies right.
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I see a lot of emotion in your tweets, and no admission of reality of limited cognitive abilities. Normal people are having enough trouble already with following instructions in medicines they are given, expecting them to read technical literature is lol. https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2004-gottfredson.pdf …pic.twitter.com/7i16xiGKOF
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Your paternalistic & patronizing views about “normal people” belong to a very, very different era. A bygone era. Thankfully these views are fast disappearing.
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Yikes, these views are so depressing and stuck in the Dark Ages. Is it possible (I guess it is) that you’ve never heard of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access? Empowering people with access to knowledge and information is valuable. Physicians shouldn’t feel threatened by it!
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I worked in low income East London. Routinely patients bring in print outs. I think you underestimate people. Also, when parents have a sick kid, they often become experts in that condition very quickly. We really want to block access to peer reviewed papers from them?
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