return2ozma@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days 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-square11fedilinkarrow-up1206arrow-down10
arrow-up1206arrow-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 · 3 days agomessage-square11fedilink
minus-square0x01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29·3 days agoThe irony of paywalling a piece positively portraying an anti paywall advocate is rich
minus-squarecouldhavebeenyou@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoThe alternative is paying through ads
minus-square0x01@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days 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.
minus-squarepdxfed@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days 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.
The irony of paywalling a piece positively portraying an anti paywall advocate is rich
The alternative is paying through ads
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.
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.