Richard Grant, On religion

"Somewhere on the internets the other day I came across a comment about Faculty of 1000, written by one of our (erstwhile) Faculty Members....[T]he gist of the comment was that he was no longer participating in the project because F1000 is not open access..... But the more I thought about it, the more I realized how stupid that stand is, and the angrier I became. Open access has taken on the mantle of a religious crusade. Open access, it seems, is a panacea for all ills, adhered to by faith in the face of any evidence to the contrary. All journals, all publications, should be made freely accessible at the point of consumption, according to their wild-haired, starry-eyed prophets. To anyone with half a brain, this is ludicrous...."