…. as long as they can afford $15,000 for a lifetime of access to Nature.
Science is a right, which means it is something that anyone, regardless of wealth level, should be able to claim and, if denied, be able to enforce the claim.
Suppose that a person attempts to claim his/her/zir/their human right to science at the nature.com web site? He/she/ze/they quickly hits a pay wall:
My response via X:
Aren’t you the same people who say that nobody can have access to the science published in your journal unless they pay $200/year (that’s $15,000 during a human lifetime)? Science is then a “right” for anyone who can afford to pay you? If that’s the standard then we can say that owning a superyacht is a right as well because anyone with enough money can buy a 100-meter yacht. Here are some yachts that are available on the same terms as the science published by Nature:
Related:
- (support for referring to Nature as among the righteous, above) Nature endorsed Hillary Clinton in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020
Top tier science publishers should go bankrupt. They are such hypocrites. All scientists should publish their findings in free journals.