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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Haha le munni

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago
[–] [email protected] 68 points 5 days ago

That's a nice paywall you have there, sure would be a shame if... https://sci-hub.se

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Just a quick check, is this location based or something, or maybe the meme was very old? Not to say that these things don’t happen anymore, but I can access this one specifically just fine.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yep, I looked it up in the US and I could access it fine. I also tried it with my VPN set to the following countries and none of them needed a subscription: Canada, Mexico, Czechia, India, Singapore, Australia.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 days ago

Ah yes, the science publishing problem. It's even worse than this, since it encourages publication quantity over quality, which leads to an alarming amount of junk science masquerading as facts.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just email the authors of the article directly and ask it from them.

Probably more than happy to send it to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In my experience, only the minority of professors reply to such emails. Perhaps you've had better luck than I.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It isn't just professors. It's people mentioned in the rsx paper. Usually masters students.

I have never denied someone who has emailed me a free copy of the literature I've been cited in. Nor have any of my colleagues. We don't get paid when people buy it, so fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I wonder why disinformation and misinformation is such a problem nowadays... Maybe the access to scientific papers should be opened and democratized so everyone, regardless of social and economic classes, could read and lookup reliable knowledge? Nah, just paywall 'em all and blame those silly conspiracy theorists for online misinformation, it'll certainly work. /s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

It’s feature not a bug. They find it much harder to scam an educated population out of their money.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago

Seriously though, Biden did sign an executive order that prohibits government funded research from going behind a pay wall.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

You'll own nothing, you'll access nothing, and you'll be happy and pay for it...