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Just curious, who are these non-scientists who will pay for scientific papers? Journalists? I can't imagine people whose work do not depend on these papers pay
by GuB-42 5y ago
Just curious, who are these non-scientists who will pay for scientific papers? Journalists?
I can't imagine people whose work do not depend on these papers pay the exorbitant fees. And those who need scientific papers for work are generally the ones we call scientists.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoDoctors came to mind. They depend on scientific evidence for their practice but most do not publish scientific articles.
- ta988 5y agoPeople with a disease and searching for informations about it. You can't imagine how many patients I've heard payed for those articles. And $30-$60 is a lot for just ten pages...
- matheusmoreira 5y agoI never considered that. These monopolists will exploit even sick people. It's disgusting.
- sircastor 5y agoI agree with you. I think the monopolists would respond that this is research that should be done by the doctor, not the patient. Patients doing their own research can be dangerous.
- ta988 5y agoYes and if my wife didn't bring articles and did her own research to her doctors she would likely be dead by now... Patients bringing info to doctors is extremely common. It also mean that doctors have to deal with a lot of BS unfortunately.
- AlbertCory 5y ago> "who are these non-scientists who will pay for scientific papers? Journalists?" Patent researchers. I was one. Except I never paid a fee just to look at a paper, purely because I don't know if it's any good until I read it, and there are HUNDREDS of papers I have to skim. You can always find it or something very similar for free. Once we know it's an important paper, then our outside law firm would pay the fee, and it would disappear in their monthly bill.
- sircastor 5y agoI’m an amateur electrical engineer and I’ve taken time to read research papers about robotics and electronics. I learn all kinds of stuff. I think there’s a problem in the world (at least in engineering) where research is being done two or more times because of lack of information dissemination. Once by the university researcher, once by the corporate researcher, and many times by the layman who is moving through conclusions on his own work.