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Re: NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Academic Publishers Can't PAYWALL NIH-Funded Research

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Fiz - good article. Thank you for posting that.

>>> This war has a long way to go.

Agreed, 100% - a long, long, long ways to go.

Not just information and research paid for by NIH - but by many, many other areas that U.S. are paying for with public money.

Many moons ago - did a deep dive into the 'Ozone Hole' hysteria. Attacked it in search from many angles, measurements of actual ozone levels (instrumentation, methodology, sampling density, measurement reliability, etc); from relationship to solar activity (seasonal earth orbit effects, sunspot activity, cosmic ray effects); repeatability or other evidence of 'holes' that may exist elsewhere (found a profound non-seasonal effect of ozone 'thinning' actually exists at the equatorial high altitudes, but not over the rest of 'earth') and other avenues of attack/investigstion - such as 'relationships/interactions with earth's magnetosphere' (hint - profound).

The one area where I got completely stymied was at 'paywalls - don't use 'em cuz me a tightwad - from PUBLICLY FUNDED university research into the 'much claimed catalytic effect of fluorocarbons' - how does this catalytic effect actually function. BLOCKED. I profoundly doubt this effect - due to my own personal experience with 'fluorocarbons'. High energy quickly DESTROYS fluorocarbons aka. 'freons'. A very 'easy' test for freon leaks is an open flame (eg a match) at suspected sites. Freon reacts violently, changes colour of flame as it oxidizes, and decomposes completely with a strong acidic odour - like vinegar. OZONE is an EXTREMELY HIGH OXIDIZER, and cosmic radiation is an EXTREMELY HIGH ENERGY SOURCE - ie. the match, the ignitor. So the hypothesis of a self-regenerating 'catalyst' with such profound 'ozone destroying' properties was (and remains) a point of contention for me. Research into this 'phenomena' was ALL paywalled - and thus a dead end for me.The 'majic box' of freon-as-catalyst remains in the literature with nothing more than a 'majic wand' presentation in any of the published chemical reaction formulae.

Other areas that are shut down - ANY real information about the design, operation, corrosion problems, etc. of NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS - research that USED to be published (paid for by US) and was readily available, was pretty much completely removed from the internet in the early 2000's. Even doing searches for that type of info gets one flagged as a potential terrorist and put on some pretty nasty watch lists. PERRHAPS excusable from a 'national security' standpoint - but also very limiting in public understanding, knowledge, implementation, and trust of GOOD 'nuclear'.

The government HIDES a lot of useful information - paywalls are just ONE of many techniques they employ.

NOT just the NIH hear. A whole slew of the deep state entities are involved.




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NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Academic Publishers Can't PAYWALL NIH-Funded Research
By: Fiz
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Thu, 01 May 25 10:44 PM
Msg. 07638 of 07654

Official announcement: http://www.nih.gov/about-nih/who-we-are/nih-director/statements/accelerating-access-research-results-new-implementation-date-2024-nih-public-access-policy

This is a huge piece of news, and another major victory for the Trump Admin. The CORRUPT system by which the PUBLIC paid for research, only to have the results of the research Shanghied for profit by connected (corrupting) middlemen is over.

Effectively, this corrupt system has functioned, in addition, as a great system of nudging and propagandizing. Researchers need to get their papers published. And other people need to READ the original research. Else, "inconvenient" research can be pretty easily "pie-holed" and surpressed.

This corrupt system has been in place for, I think, approximately forever. I am continually running into a case where I can't read original research because I don't have a SUPER expensive access (and I mean super, for any private citizen who is just trying to follow up on something else).

This is a big deal and, I'm sure, many, many BILLIONS of insider knowledge has been effectively privatized. I doubted it would have made the top of the list to even be recognized, given all the other "hits". So I thought I would highlight it to post.

I'm personally hoping that as Trump runs into years 2,3,4 the "hits" can just keep coming.

Of course, MAGA needs to SWEEP the House decisively in 2026, for that to happen.

This war has a long way to go.

http://science.slashdot.org/story/25/05/01/0535250/starting-july-1-academic-publishers-cant-paywall-nih-funded-research

Starting July 1, Academic Publishers Can't Paywall NIH-Funded Research (x.com) 82
Posted by msmash on Thursday May 01, 2025 @08:00AM from the moving-forward dept.
An anonymous reader writes:
NIH Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has announced that the NIH Public Access Policy, originally slated to go into effect on December 31, 2025, will now be effective as of July 1.
From Bhattacharya's announcement:
NIH is the crown jewel of the American biomedical research system. However, a recent Pew Research Center study shows that only about 25% of Americans have a "great deal of confidence" that scientists are working for the public good. Earlier implementation of the Public Access Policy will help increase public confidence in the research we fund while also ensuring that the investments made by taxpayers produce replicable, reproducible, and generalizable results that benefit all Americans.

Providing speedy public access to NIH-funded results is just one of the ways we are working to earn back the trust of the American people. Trust in science is an essential element in Making America Healthy Again. As such, NIH and its research partners will continue to promote maximum transparency in all that we do.


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