Things like this are so infuriating. Yes, an incredible amount of money is being spent to make articles freely available. But WAY more - over **40 BILLION DOLLARS** was spent over the same period to provide access to articles that are paywalled. The problem isn't open access - it's the entire corrupt journal system that needs to go.
Researchers paid $8.968 billion for their findings to be freely accessible.
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