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		blots on Sept 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Entire field of particle physics is to switch to o... My professor argued that keeping even publicly funded research and data behind paywalls will keep at least some of the people who have no idea about the scientific method from doing dangerous nonsense with it. I don't share this opinion.

niels_olson on Sept 25, 2012 [–]

This sounds like a variation of the Metallica defense. Does EMI own Elsevier?

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