Why, look, it's another chance to flog my pet peeve! Here's the problem: The citation in the news article looks like this: A recent study published in the Jou

Why, look, it's another chance to flog my pet peeve! Here's the problem: The citation in the news article looks like this: A recent study published in the Journal of Social Behaviour and Personality... Visit the page of that journal and you can see a link to their "journal online". But the page at the end of the link is hilariously awful: Your university's subscription to this Journal has just become even better value! Notice the complete lack of useful facilities for the general public -- and just about everybody else, for that matter. I can't even find a browseable homepage of the latest issue of this journal. There's a search box that I can type in, but I can't find a recent reference to the only scientist mentioned in the news article. When I do click on a random paper from the journal I can't read it unless I buy it, and I can't buy it or even see the price without registering. They say expressing anger is good for your career. So let me advance my career by noting that the existing for-pay scientific publishing industry is a collection of hopelessly-obsolete parasitic middlemen that actively harms science education by keeping primary sources out of sight of the public, and that we should all lobby to have our government's tax-supported research grants come with a requirement to publish in open-access journals: http://www.plos.org/ http://www.plos.org/