• Daemon Silverstein@thelemmy.club
    681·
    2 months ago

    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

    • kemsat@lemmy.world
      51·
      2 months ago

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

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
    391·
    2 months ago

    You’ll own nothing, you’ll access nothing, and you’ll be happy and pay for it…

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 months 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.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    251·
    2 months ago

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

    Probably more than happy to send it to you.

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

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

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months 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.

  • inspxtr@lemmy.world
    112·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • odium@programming.dev
      9·
      2 months 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.