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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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @GYamey and
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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Replying to @HMBroughMD @KirkegaardEmil and
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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Replying to @HMBroughMD @KirkegaardEmil and
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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Replying to @HMBroughMD @GYamey and
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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Replying to @KirkegaardEmil @HMBroughMD and
I’m a physician and public health professor, and I am just so depressed that you think publicly funded health literature should be locked behind access barriers because “normal people” cannot grasp it. Yes, views like this are archaic, belonging to an era when ‘doctors knew best’
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Emil O W Kirkegaard Retweeted Emil O W Kirkegaard
Strawman again. I never said I think it should be locked up. Literally, said the opposite in this very thread. I've spent years pushing for openaccess policies. https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/1151124180596908038 … I am attacking your anti-scientific attitude and terrible arguments, nothing else.
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