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Turns out that Ghislaine Maxwell's father who invented the paywall model for research papers. (www.medpagetoday.com)

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[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yep, Pergamon press and their literal bullshit technique for journal articles that they pioneered is the reason when I heard the name Maxwell during the whole Epstein "saga" around I think 2015 I remember distinctively yelling out loud "of fucking course it's Maxwells again" (I was working in a biochemistry lab)