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Is the question: "Was Robert Maxwell evil?" The guy who was a media mogul British agent and Labor MP who worked closely with the CIA and the KGB, was stealing intelligence assets from the US and selling them to Israel, and then tried to extort money from Israel to expose them to the Americans, who then died mysteriously immediately afterword, upon which it was discovered he had emptied his employees pensions in order to fund his own failing businesses, themselves imploding from debt, on top of it all was being investigated for war crimes during WW2? That Robert Maxwell?

Yes he was evil as fuck, one of the most parasitic individuals of the 20th century. And Ghislane was his favorite, the yacht he was on when he definitely wasn't pushed overboard by mossad agents was named "The Lady Ghislaine". Arguably its how she was so good at staying in the circle of so many psychopathic narcissists for so long.

There’s a Behind The Bastards podcast episode on him

The growing inaccessibility of science

Robert Maxwell's oily fingers were in so many industries, it was insane. He's a hated figure in the UK - partly because of his general shittiness, but mainly for fucking over a load of pension pots. He's on the scale slightly above James Corden; but slightly below Margaret Thatcher for general hatred.

If anyone has seen Tetris of late, that film paints Maxwell and his cronies in an appropriate light.

It's a shame, because Mirrorsoft were a decent publisher as well.

Cough cough sci-hub.se

Pretty much yeah.

If you ever find yourself in a similar situation, send the paper’s authors a polite email requesting a copy. They can, and often do, send a free copy to people who request it.

capitalists will always do capitalist things.

pirate all of this that you can.

Capitalism. The answer is pure, unadulterated capitalism.

sci-motherfucking-hub my man, need I say more

They didn’t realise that her father who stole loads of money from pensioners was evil?

it's not science if it's above criticism, and if it can't be accessed by all who would, we can't expect it to have undergone the utmost scrutiny.

To gate access is to be anti scientific.

The shit apple doesn't fall far from the shit tree, Ricky.

But his daughter turned out so nice!

Someone should paywall the paywall model. You can paywall this, but for a monthly subscription. Don’t mind me profiting off of you profiting off of others.