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Kate Nyhan> Gates simply opposes open science and compulsory licenses on scientific patents, even when that kills millions of people (as it did in South Africa).
He opposes open science for vaccine patents. He enforces open science for the rest of us, to the extent to no longer allowing Gates Foundation grant funds to be used to cover open access article processing charges, instead preferring Gates-funded authors to post preprints on their in-house preprint server
https://openaccess.gatesfoundation.org/
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(Frankly I think the Gates Foundation may be on to something with the preprint policy instead of covering sky-high APCs without blinking, but it's a big contrast with his take on vaccine tech.)
(Frankly I think the Gates Foundation may be on to something with the preprint policy instead of covering sky-high APCs without blinking, but it's a big contrast with his take on vaccine tech.)