Irony of the Day: Academic EditionLook at the screenshot below of these Google Scholar search results. The first entry is what looks like a pretty definitive study. It's published in
Science, one of the most respected, if not
the most respected, omnibus scientific journals on the planet. And its authors hail from some of the top public/federal research facilities and universities.
But, if you click through to actually
read the article, you can't, at least not without paying $32. But, in this case, you
can read the PDF of the full paper for free by clicking on the link to the right...a link that goes to the Urmia University of Medical Sciences. In Iran.
So, we're faced with the situation where US public research funds were spent to support research, which is then published by a for-profit company that charges the public (again) to read the results. But no matter, the Trump administration has put a gag order on federal climate scientists publishing their findings, so we won't even
have papers like this in the future to not be able to read without going to a sanctioned nation's academic institution.
This entire situation seems to violate every principle of what's right, yet I don't see many academics criticizing it publicly or attempting to challenge it outright.
