Paywalls...

 

Excessive advertising & paywalls have always been an issue when I've been looking at HIV articles.  They've always been bad, then they got intolerable.  Now, some of them are completely unavoidable & very preventative for valuable info to be disseminated to the public.

I understand these sites have bills.  However, the people who could truly use the info they're reporting can't afford all these paywalls.  In a single morning's search for articles, I can easily hit 3 - 5 paysites.  That's a lot of articles I can't read or bring to this blog.  If I'm lucky, another site will also report on the matter & not have a paywall.  That doesn't always happen & it usually takes a while.

There should be sites where people can stay up to  date on health issues.  If not,  it will only leave sites of lesser quality & credibility for health info. That's how misinformation & conspiracy theories get started.

Take care.

Cya...

Articles Maybe...

 

I think there may have been a couple of interesting articles this morning.  I don't know, they were behind so many paywalls & commercial bombardments I couldn't get to them.  I hate it when people  hide articles over health matters behind paywalls.   These aren't oped's or Pulitzer pieces, they're articles concerning very real matters over people's well being.

OK, rants over.  It's grey & drizzling this morning.  It's going to be the coldest 24 hours we've had so far.  It's not supposed to get into the 40s.  So cold, dark & wet, with a possibility of snow.  Yuck.

Take care. Be safe.  Be kind.

Cya...

UGGH...

It's hard enough to find articles.  Quite often I can find them,  but they're just behind paywalls.  This is a problem, I don't have cash to pay for every site & I don't want to post about a piece I can't link to & have readers see w/o paying.  

I get angry about this.  HIV is a health issue.  Information over something like this should be as widespread as possible.  But let any of the leading newspapers, journals or news sites get a good piece & you're apt to hit a paywall.   I realize they have to make $.   They could at least offer health info or push decent abstracts.   I wish they'd stop using HIV pieces as hooks to get people to pay for their existence.

Rants over.  I have nothing else for today.  Every article I saw was a pay-for.   Maybe they'll pop up somewhere else.

Cya...