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A publishing executive tears up a journal in outrage after the government moves to stop publishers charging for publicly funded research. Flanary portrays the executive admitting the business model makes taxpayers pay again for work they funded, lamenting being cut out as a middleman, and noting the company still earns billions. His assistant argues open access helps society, but the executive vows to replace lost revenue with exorbitant open access fees instead.
Key takeaways
- Flanary portrays publishers as gatekeepers of research the public already paid for
- The publisher character openly frames being cut out as a middleman’s worst outcome, in the sketch
- Open access is presented by the assistant character as a public benefit
- The threatened response, in the sketch, is shifting profit into steep open access fees
Episode details: published August 26, 2022 · 316.6K views · 1:59 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Everything described is Dr. Glaucomflecken’s (Will Flanary, MD) satire and commentary on the US medical system, attributed to him as satire — his sketches are comedy, not documentation, and this is not medical advice.
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