[open-science] open access perils? (#RIP @aaronscwarz)

Paola Di Maio paola.dimaio at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 19:08:07 UTC 2013


Matthew!

> I don't believe I'm discounting serious wrongdoings by Assange. I
> realize that some people do discount the faults of people who agree
> with them.  It also very often happens that - to quote Aaron Swartz -
> "It’s always easier for people to blame the victim". [1].  This is
> what is called the "just-world hypothesis" [2], and it is very ugly
> when you see it working.

Thank you for being Aaron's voice in this thread :-)

he lives on

PDM

>
> Matthew
>
> [1] http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-05-07-n78.html
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis




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