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iosifsvoboda posted...

Didn't you yourself just say you had to have a colleague photocopy an article?

And also why should laymen have access? Any field is inherently going to have so much jargon a layman or scientist outside of that field isn't going to understand a lick of it anyway

No, I didn't. Typically the way it works is that if an article is not available, either because the article is so old and so uncited that it isn't digitize or your university doesn't happen to have that particular subscription for the particular year that article was published, the university library will find it for you, either in their own archive or via another university, and upload it for you. You put in a request and typically within 24 hours you have the article you want, no matter how obscure and old. Either way, this is an incredibly rare occurrence. I put in like two requests a year.

And it's important for the lay public to have access to the scientific literature. It's not really hard to learn a jargon, first of all. Second of all, many important findings are completely accessible to a lay person.
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