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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 08:21 PM EDT |
Sorry, this was from Ed L (not logged in).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 10:29 PM EDT |
In reply to - Ed L (not logged in),
Thank you for your time and your thoughtful response.
However, I am not sure that paywalls are good things regardless of the
"nature" ;-) of the publication. If we say that paywalls are a good
thing for this publication then where do we draw the line? I believe that an
open online forum of these same scientists could produce an article of similar
quality and credibility that could be viewed by anyone without the necessity of
a paywall.
You certainly answer the question as to the likely reason they chose this method
of publication and this journal in particular. That is, after all, part of what
I originally asked. But I qualified my question with "If this subject is
so important". The headline scared me into wanting to read the Nature
article linked to in the quoted article. Imagine my dismay when I discovered
that it was going to cost me $32 to find out if I should be afraid.
Many years ago (when I was younger and even stupider than I am now) a door to
door salesman sold and installed mechanical fire alarms in our apartment after
convincing us that our then baby daughter was going to burn to death that night
if we didn't sign the contract immediately and allow him to install the alarms.
We later discovered that there were better, less expensive solutions and that
his "facts" may have been a just little misleading. Since that
encounter, I have been very cautious when I someone uses fear to try to motivate
me to do anything.
Thanks again for your time.
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