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Old 10-01-2013, 04:57 AM   #1119 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by P-hack View Post
Useless, "pay for the findings we condemn you with". NO! Don't we fund most of this with taxes already? In the one paper it was found incomplete anyway.

That is not an acceptable form of sharing information, that ISN'T sharing information.
It is the journals that charge for access, not the authors of the papers. I did note earlier that there has been a trend towards more open access, with journals like PLOS ONE. It doesn't matter though, because anyone capable of making use of the papers (more than just the abstracts) will have the resources to access them.

Why make a particular objection to being unable to access papers relevant to climate change alone? Why not accept that the scientists who do the research and write the papers, do know what they are doing and are constantly checked, simply by the scientific process? We do so, without a second thought, for other areas of science; the fundamental truth will be always be approached.

A simple three word search, specifically about Pliocene climate modelling, in a single search engine, produced 12188 results (papers). Maybe at least a few of those are going to be accurate.