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I’m surprised. Back in the 90s when I was studying externally (from interstate) I used the internet. All those academic articles that were free, no paywalls, were delicious! Admittedly I was studying in the humanities. I miss that era.

The article or the journal?

Nature right now

Objectively, this is a global issue as those in control keep trying to raise the price of admission to accurate information. Information that should never be owned, purposefully keeping people ignorant unless those in control can make money off of them.

Admittedly this particular article is NOW free (30+ years old, I suppose), but it’s still a significant problem, especially in patient engagement with the literature. (Someone tried to tell me yesterday that it wasn’t 😂)

While I personally understand that we are paying in large part for some publicly funded research (that we have… already paid for) in there, I *think* they think they are “pricing competitively” (which… no) with the for-profit likes of WaPo ($170) and The Economist ($230). If not I got nuthin. SMDH.