Comments by "Brenda Rua" (@brendarua01) on "Academic research is publicly funded -- why isn't it publicly available? | Erica Stone" video.

This is an enlightening goal. I agree that access should be free, and with some training, members of the public could do real, useful work in many areas. They already do in disciplines that require field work. I'm not so sure about the translation side of things. I guess most areas of research can be translated for the public. But that is a skill in its own right. Very few of us are Sagans or Tysons. We would need to train people to do so. That's not a bad thing in a democracy.
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