Why I, a founder of PLOS, am forsaking open access

I fully agree. Open Access journals are evil. Very nice analysis, has anyone been able to quantify the impact of the increased popularity of OA journals on the financial crisis?

Also we should take into account the energy saved by all the scientists not being able to download paywalled full pdfs, mother earth says thank you.

I thought we were going to keep the April Fools pranks of HN.

"Sure PubMed Central – the free database of papers produced with funding from the National Institutes of Health – gets over 1,000,000 hits a day. But do you really believe numbers from the government? After all, these are the same people who are saying that 7,000,000 people have signed up for Obamacare."

Yes, I do believe they are reasonably accurate, the post is filled with these spurious arguments.

tldr; do not read. waste of time

It's an april fools joke, laced with massive amounts of obvious sarcasm.

My favorite:

"But we never hear about the people who’ve been hurt – like all the students at places like Harvard and Stanford who no longer have better access to the scientific literature than hoi poloi at lesser institutions."