[open-science] Crucially overlooked Ebola research article is paywalled at... Elsevier

[Cemre Kutluay]

Instead of usb sticks, i propose datafields
<http://www.transmediale.de/content/clandestine-offline-sharing-networks> :)

On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:04 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk>
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>>> But here's a testable, cheap, scientific experiment.
>>> put all the world's medical facts onto 10000 memory sticks (or mobile
>>> phones, or Raspberry Pis, or whatever) and send them to an anglophone West
>>> African country (because the literature is in English). Monitor reported
>>> health outcomes after 10 years. Compare with a neighbouring country which
>>> didn't have the memory sticks.
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>> Liberia has 51 doctors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Liberia> (ie
>> one for every 76,000 citizens).  What would you do with the other 9,949
>> sticks?
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> Give them to teachers, local government officials, and even school
> children.
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>> Do we really think that the lack of knowledge (which is different from
>> "all the world's medical facts" BTW),
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> I know it's different am trying to do something about that.
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>> was the only, or even primary, factor here?
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> Even if it's only a small contributory factor it's not excusable.
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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