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To get the most accurate view of a hazy subject the best way is to get as many data point as possible however the system is set up to conversely punish whoever wants to achieve this by associating a cost to every extra paper which is downloaded. A clever computer scientist named Aaron Schwartz (a co creator of Reddit) figured this out in 2011, he learnt for the world to emerge from a ''fake news dystopia'' barriers to access to as many data points as possible was imperative. As such he downloaded as many papers from MIT and JSTOR as possible and then uploaded it to the web for any scientist to access. This one event in history just in the medical sciences has saved countless lives as doctors from China and India for the first time could access this raw knowledge, free of charge. | |||
To get the most accurate view of a hazy subject the best way is to get as many data point as possible however the system is set up to conversely punish whoever wants to | |||
Unfortunately, Schwartz was caught by the FBI and subsequently committed suicide as he faced 35 years in jail. However, fortunately, the banner of open access information has now been picked up by Alexandra Elbakyan, "the pirate queen" and this information is now published via her website sci-hub, which is the main resource of knowledge for burnzero.com. | |||
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