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My only child, a 5 year old girl, has a fairly rare degenerative disease and I've been reading the latest research on it and have been using this knowledge to inform her physician about possible treatments. She ended up in a promising drug study because I kept on top of this field and ended up talking to researchers about it. In a large part, this is thanks to Sci-Hub.

Sci-Hub is fundraising | Hacker News Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login Sci-Hub is fundraising ( sci-hub.do ) 518 points by bluish29 on Aug 7, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 122 comments Jerry2 on Aug 7, 2021 | next [–] I used to donate to a lot of "tech/free/open-source" related and free speech non-profits to the amount of about $5,000 per year but this past year I ended up paring down my choices and only donating to Archive.org, Archive.is, FSF and Sci-Hub. I still feel like Sci-Hub is the least robust of the orgs and I feel like they need most of

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