No #AAAS and ASM you do not deserve good PR for freeing up a few papers on Ebola

Saw a PR from AAAS about how they were freeing up all of ~ 20 papers on Ebola In light of what has become the largest Ebola outbreak on record, Science and Science Translational Medicine have compiled over a decade's worth of their published news and research. Researchers and the general public can now view this special collection for free.OK. More access is good. But alas, they did not even free up all papers in #AAAS journals with Ebola in the Title or Abstract.And then I started thinking. What about HIV? TB? Malaria? And as I started Tweeting about this, I saw that ASM also was hopping on the "free Ebola" bandwagon (actually I do not know who did it first).And so I got angry and started Tweeting away. The Storify below sums up most of the details. [View the story "#AAAS and ASM free up Ebola papers show they don't care about HIV, malaria, TB, etc." on Storify]--------------------------UPDATE 9 AM 8/21Great.  And now the Lancet has joined the bandwagon.They write"The current outbreak of Ebola in west Africa constitutes the largest and most complex to date. Declared a public health emergency of international concern by WHO, the outbreak of a disease with no known treatment or vaccination is proving difficult to contain given the already fragile and under resourced health systems in the affected areas.The Lancet wishes to assist health workers and researchers working under difficult and dangerous conditions to bring this outbreak to a close. This Ebola hub conta...
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