Paywalls are a nuisance. Failures of peer review, lack of reproducibility, and political bias are some of the real problems. Scientists and the institutions th

Paywalls are a nuisance. Failures of peer review, lack of reproducibility, and political bias are some of the real problems. Scientists and the institutions that support them must work towards solving these problems. Nobody is going to do that for them. A good first step would be to start acknowledging that the practice of science is as political as any other important human endeavour, and not some impartial objective selfless oracle. Step two could be finding solutions based on this new admission.