I don't think scientific publishing is perfect, but I strongly disagree that it's somehow holding back society. T he number one thing that is holding back soci

I don't think scientific publishing is perfect, but I strongly disagree that it's somehow holding back society. T he number one thing that is holding back society in my opinion is that the vast majority don't think science is important or useful, and even worse, think that their opinions are somehow the same as scientific knowledge. Even convincing people in industry that basing decisions on data can be hard, let alone convincing them to use something approximating the scientific method. In short, if people wanted to read science papers but couldn't, I might agree with you, but people don't even want to.