Disrupting the Spacetime Continuum

If only I were Michael J. Fox, a letter I would send back in time.

Letter to an Older Scientist

I see that you were funded throughout your career by the National Science Foundation. So while some researchers at well funded schools have access to your paper, the amusing thing is that the people who paid for your work, also known as tax payers, don’t have access to your work. A public good that’s no longer public, because somehow the academic community has decided to let a company charge way too much for work they did not perform.