Human rights, apparently, a holy concept beyond criticism. (Not that I did so in that thread, but that idea is basically a lawyer activists's wet dream.) https://twitter.com/GYamey/status/1151572962476285953 …
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Technically, he did not say that poor patients are the major beneficiaries of open access. Poor medical workers in developing countries are. Plus, rights talk isn’t lefty, unless you’d call ACLU lefty.
He said or implied that in the thread many times. I agree that OA is good for medical workers in general, and those in poorer countries even more. Still we know that it didn't have a huge impact because no recent changes in health gaps due to OA. ACLU is super lefty.
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Yes he was being misleading. I think the governments of dev countries aren’t utilising OA so no reason to expect OA to have an immediate effect. That kind of productivity would be surprising. LOL But OA is required for long-term development I think.
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In a similar vein, Scihub is effectively massive OA. And who uses Scihub? People who mostly could get access elsewhere (on per capita basis). https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/whos-downloading-pirated-papers-everyone …pic.twitter.com/N1kJ4QuOPS
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The nuisance of getting papers via libraries or authors is just wrong so I have vowed not to speak ill of SciHub even though activists are playing the “access right to knowledge” card. Possibly by social norms everyone may become *expected* to read papers once they’re available.
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Btw SciHub being mainly used by those who already have access does not mean that it did not serve the original goal of broadening knowledge access. It’s just the way SciHub is implemented makes it also attractive to other people in the meantime.
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In fact, I don’t see how there could be a paper sharing platform such that it only serves the researchers in developing countries while not attracting western institutional researchers who are a bit lazy.
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