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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Erm. There is no strawman, except from you here. At no point did I say it's a solution to public ignorance. You did, and then made several dubious, probably offensive, and unrelated remarks to the original tweet. Check, seriously. And carefully.
Most people don't want to read it, and they don't read it when it is made available. Making it more available will change just about nothing in public ignorance or utility of medical literature. I don't understand how much more clear it can be said. OA helps mostly academics.
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Please read the paper that Gavin kindly shared earlier on in this thread before continuing to engage further with this discussion. Personally, I think your views here are among some of the most damaging from the world of academia at the moment.
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You have unreasonable expectations of the capability and aspirations of ordinary people. They have their own lives and just want the best yet least expensive treatments and don’t care to know the details of medicine, unless they’re curious.
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