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Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by fragmede on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:14PM (#23408090)
> read a lot of papers

In order to do this, those that are serious need to be able to access papers, but paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for Elsevier can put them out of reach.

Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by knzhou on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:35PM (#23408332)
Indeed, but that is the problem that preprints can solve. (As in, they don't solve the problem of telling what is correct, because that's just inherently hard, but they solve the problem of giving access so people can learn to tell.)