Hard disagree, if research findings were more accessible, NOT PAYWALLED, and published with some degree of intent for a wide audience then WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more people would dabble in reading scientific research and the benefit could have potentially saved science from such rapid collapse in my country (the US).
So much more easement of corruption of science too. “Many eyes make all bugs shallow”, Linus’s Law – ESR.
It’s like free thought has become neglected in the set of fundamental freedoms. “Freedoms forgotten are freedoms lost”. Leaving group think, mass formation, and totalitarianised psyches in the wake of this loss. Where every and any atrocity gets seen as a necessary virtue to protect “the one true way” dogma in the minds of the terrorised and totalitarianised.
Cui Bono (who benefits) from the paywalling of knowledge? Not us. Not science. The corrupt.
Hard disagree, if research findings were more accessible, NOT PAYWALLED, and published with some degree of intent for a wide audience then WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY more people would dabble in reading scientific research and the benefit could have potentially saved science from such rapid collapse in my country (the US).
SO true.
It used to be A LOT easier to rummage through research papers online. Abstracts alone just don’t cut it.
The internet of around 2000-2005 was a very different place, back when the internet was more library than TV.
So much more “Well! Looks like we got a reader!” added to the world, by making it even harder to access.
So much more easement of corruption of science too. “Many eyes make all bugs shallow”, Linus’s Law – ESR.
It’s like free thought has become neglected in the set of fundamental freedoms. “Freedoms forgotten are freedoms lost”. Leaving group think, mass formation, and totalitarianised psyches in the wake of this loss. Where every and any atrocity gets seen as a necessary virtue to protect “the one true way” dogma in the minds of the terrorised and totalitarianised.
Cui Bono (who benefits) from the paywalling of knowledge? Not us. Not science. The corrupt.