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I have an opinion piece in Georgetown’s newspaper about open access and Conyers’ bill which would end the NIH policy.

The right way — the fair way — is to continue the NIH open access policy that requires researchers receiving taxpayer money from the NIH to submit a copy of their manuscript to the free, publicly accessible PubMed Central database. By removing the barrier to scholarship, open access allows scholars to advance the frontiers of knowledge and lets ordinary Americans increase their awareness of various medical conditions.

Check out the whole thing here and take action to support open access here.

I recently joined the Editorial Board of The Hoya, Georgetown’s student newspaper. Although the articles are edited collaboratively between the five members, the first piece I substantially wrote was a response to Mark Bauerlein’s “The Dumbest Generation“:

“Bauerlein apparently fails to see that there are two sides to every coin. By using the technology at our disposal, we have found means of engaging in society at ages during which young people were formerly kept out of public discourse. Kids, well, they’ll be kids: The ones who ignored Cronkite’s drone 30 years ago will no more pay attention in class today. But what has changed is the ability to mobilize many to engage and discuss — in the classroom, the public sphere or simply with peers… Digital technology, when accompanied by a little bit of curiosity, unleashes intellectual potential in new and exciting ways.”

Check out the rest of it (including a response from Bauerlein) here.

Update: MacArthur Foundation reports that Internet use develops important skills.