People like Sagan, while propped up and spoken highly of by the left, are actually pretty far from being what the left wants them to be. They preached free-thinking, questioning the norm, and bettering yourself through learning. All of those things, if practiced today, destroy 99% of the myths propagated by the left, and they know it, but they can't condemn those men for obvious reasons.
The Science™ Cult has Official Tenets that must always be obeyed.
Clergy in White Coats ("Scientific Experts") promote the Cult Tenets to the Unwashed Masses.
If anyone questions The Science™, they are labeled as a Heretic ("Anti-Science" or "Anti-Vaxxer"), excommunicated and financially ruined ("Cancelled").
The only way a Heretic can be reintegrated back into the Cult is to publicly atone themselves and promise never to do it again.
https://libgen.is/ is also for cyber-terrorists. Don't use it under any circumstances. You definitely will not find massive hordes of books in PDF form available to you.
I freaking love sci-hub. One thing I like to do in my area of work is mention the site and all the stuff on it. I can't just tell people to go there but I like doing my part.
I came up at the tail-end of the 1990s "information should be free" optimism and they got a lot wrong in how tech would usher in an anti-corporate utopia but that's one thing I won't change my mind on.
So much for the love of academic sharing and teaching the unwashed masses, like men like Sagan and Gould used to preach in their pop-sci books.
People like Sagan, while propped up and spoken highly of by the left, are actually pretty far from being what the left wants them to be. They preached free-thinking, questioning the norm, and bettering yourself through learning. All of those things, if practiced today, destroy 99% of the myths propagated by the left, and they know it, but they can't condemn those men for obvious reasons.
Science has become The Science™ and it's now religion. Can't let the plebs read it themselves, have to pass down the knowledge only from priests.
The Science™ Cult has Official Tenets that must always be obeyed.
Clergy in White Coats ("Scientific Experts") promote the Cult Tenets to the Unwashed Masses.
If anyone questions The Science™, they are labeled as a Heretic ("Anti-Science" or "Anti-Vaxxer"), excommunicated and financially ruined ("Cancelled").
The only way a Heretic can be reintegrated back into the Cult is to publicly atone themselves and promise never to do it again.
https://libgen.is/ is also for cyber-terrorists. Don't use it under any circumstances. You definitely will not find massive hordes of books in PDF form available to you.
Sci-hub.se hops paywalls.
Remember kids - Piracy of academic papers that your government has already paid for is soo wrong.
DOWNLOADING SCIENTIFIC PAPERS IS GENOCIDE
GENOCIDE IS AGAINST THE LAW
https://youtube.com/watch?v=wdSFe0UgB3E
Why is it again that I have to pay to read research that my tax dollars have funded?
I freaking love sci-hub. One thing I like to do in my area of work is mention the site and all the stuff on it. I can't just tell people to go there but I like doing my part.
I came up at the tail-end of the 1990s "information should be free" optimism and they got a lot wrong in how tech would usher in an anti-corporate utopia but that's one thing I won't change my mind on.
This is old news. The quoted tweet is from six months ago.
I’m an idiot…
Nothing wrong with spreading more awareness. It’s not like you claimed it just happened in the title or anything.
70% unreproducibility means 70% of this is garbage