[GOAL] COVID-19 and access to knowledge

[Nicolas Pettiaux]

Dear Mr Archambault,

As far as I consider, today it is rather clear : the solution to find 
ways to cure and protect the world from vaccine (not only the  
coronavirus that infect us today) will *only* come from novel ideas, 
that will be most probably found outside of the limited fiel of "corona 
research hub".

I consider that *every* knowledge related to medicine, biology, 
chemistry, mathematical modelling, physics, sociology, history, 
geography and probably many more fields must be released NOW to be 
usable with any automatic analysis.

Every action that prevent such actions is greedy. And their authors will 
be responsible of murders.
(many managers in proprietary publishers are for me the authors of such 
actions)

Best regards,

Nicolas Pettiaux

Le 2020-03-31 18:35, Éric Archambault a écrit :
> Peter, Stevan, and Jean-Claude,
> 
>  Sorry if my life's circumstances led me to become a greedy devil
> instead of a tenured saint.
> 
>  That said, I don't think it's right to assume that we are working out
> of self-interest to build the Coronavirus Research Hub - as early as
> January individuals at Elsevier and people here in my team sought to
> do our bit to make information discoverable. These people are like me,
> we live outside a Manichean world and as we decided to do our part
> with the tools at our disposal even if that didn't solve all the
> issues in the world we live in. There are people in these
> organizations and insulting us at the personal level doesn't help
> creating the sense of community we all need to fight this bug. There
> is time for theory, other for actions.
> 
>  Cordially
> 
>  Éric
> 


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