This seems like the perfect opportunity to redpill /pol/ newfags on all of this. See this Jewish man? This is Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell and creator of Pergamon Press, the first scientific journal with the specific purpose of turning scientific knowledge into profit. Maxwell's tactic was simple: he would first invite prominent scientists to the most expensive dinner of their life and write them a big fat check in exchange for exclusive publishing of all their future papers on his journal, then he would request a large subscription fee from anyone trying to access the papers, whether it was for use or for peer review. This led to science being transformed into a business even larger than the music and movie industries. After Maxwell's death in 1991, another scientific journal named Elsevier went on to buy Pergamon Press for close to $1 billion. At the same time, it cut off all the payments to the scientists and continued to raise the subscription fees higher and higher every year, up to the ridiculous point of today in which the paywall is so high that only governments, universities and giant corporations can afford to access those papers.
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