Scientific publication is broken but honestly I doubt that’s the reason science itself is broken. Before the advent of the internet you had access to the journals in your library and pretty much that’s it. If you wanted any other reference you had to do an ILL. Or write to the authors and wait for months. People obviously did great amazing science, much better than what’s being done today.

I used to live in a third world country where access to articles was abysmal (pre scihub) and honestly that was like the 10th biggest problem I had with doing good science. If you’re smart and you want to learn something you will find a way. Money is not the same thing, and neither are ideas. You can’t just will your way to those things.

Again, I am happy scihub exists and support it fully, but that’s honestly not solving the real problem with science.