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I think there should be a bounty for revealing the truth

Was just thinking that if sci-hub were more like a git repo or wiki with editors and peer comments, it would add a great deal of transparency, and pretty much destroy this anti-pattern.

FOSS still has a lot of vulnerabilities, but it has also caught a lot of vulnerabilities and more people know what to look for. Perhaps this is why there is so much resistance to sci-hub, because there are so many compromised editors and academics who risk exposure?

sci-hub has not tried to move anything in that direction. I would guess that opposition to sci-hub is mainly because it could reduce barriers to entry, and de-value traditional journals. For established researchers the high level of gatekeeping caused by journals is in their favor, since they know how to play the game, and many other want-to-be-researchers do not.

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