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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“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.
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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Every data and argument given to him results in a "stuck in dark ages", "yikes", "patronizing", "shocking" etc. Judging from this reaction, open access to technical literature probably won't benefit him much either.
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