[liberallarry]

Yes: we don't want an anointed priesthood to hand scientific truth out to the peons. We want the facts and figures, thanks very much.

I take it you're complaining about the cost of a subscription to the publications of the Royal Society...while also complaining about government subsidies for scientists.

There's no free lunch, friend.

[agere_contra]

The reason why I could post up the data/graphs that I have done without fear of copyright violation is that they were paid for by the American taxpayer. I’m not talking about forcing free access to the various Zeitschriften.

[drlevy88]

There are donated lunches, however; and data and theories are unlike a substance like food in that they can be shared with an unlimited number of people. Gummit subsidies are only one way and it’s not obvious they are the best. I wish enough people cared to create the equivalent of GNU for global temperature science. It deserves to be as feasible to look at the question firsthand as it is to download Linux.