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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/
Bastian Greshake Tzovaras@nyhan @pluralistic my take on that is that he conveniently enforces open science when it's in the interest of capital, and fights it tooth and claw when it doesn't.