• WaxedWookie@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      What did science and medicine ever do for me?

      If you paywall publication and peer-review, you suppress a huge amount of science that doesn’t have the kinds of checks that corporate sponsorship and review introduce. This means studies of things like the dangers of CFCs, smoking, microplastics, thalidomide, and countless other things that’ll kill you will never see the light of day.

  • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Chiming in with barely any knowledge on the topic.

    Universities are massive institutions, with serious cash behind them. What the hell is stopping, say, all the public Australian universities just setting up their own journal, running it at cost for all the universities in Australia?

    Make it make sense.