return2ozma@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoCharles Rice, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine: ‘It’s a crime that a drug exists that could cure everyone yet not everybody has access to it’english.elpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up1137arrow-down10
arrow-up1137arrow-down1external-linkCharles Rice, Nobel Prize winner in Medicine: ‘It’s a crime that a drug exists that could cure everyone yet not everybody has access to it’english.elpais.comreturn2ozma@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-square0x01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 day agoThe irony of paywalling a piece positively portraying an anti paywall advocate is rich
minus-squarecouldhavebeenyou@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoThe alternative is paying through ads
minus-squarepdxfed@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 day agoI’m pretty sure anyone in the US has had enough pharma ads smashed in their faces for conditions they don’t have their quota for a free vaccine should have been met about 20 years ago.
minus-square0x01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoDon’t get me wrong, journalism should be a paid profession in a capitalist society, just pointing out the irony (90s Alanis Morissette style). While I do indeed hate paywalls and find modern journalism fundamentally broken, I recognize their utility.
The irony of paywalling a piece positively portraying an anti paywall advocate is rich
The alternative is paying through ads
I’m pretty sure anyone in the US has had enough pharma ads smashed in their faces for conditions they don’t have their quota for a free vaccine should have been met about 20 years ago.
Don’t get me wrong, journalism should be a paid profession in a capitalist society, just pointing out the irony (90s Alanis Morissette style).
While I do indeed hate paywalls and find modern journalism fundamentally broken, I recognize their utility.