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Association of body mass index with mortality
- throwthere 4y agoActual link (full text article available for free)-- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 . oa.mg appears to be some sort of search aggregator that wants you to buy the article for $17 even though it's open access (freely available).
- jaimehrubiks 4y agoLol, is that even legal?
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoYeah, unfortunately. Repackaging and selling free stuff is a business model that is hundreds of years old. Occasionally, it's worth it, as the repackaging may come with some help understanding the material, or help in organizing it.
- coldtea 4y agoWell, water is free, and yet it's sold in bottles. And I can sell you any GPL program I got for free, if you're willing to buy it...
- dvfjsdhgfv 4y agoI had the same reaction when I saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sgfgross https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sgfgross
- Quekid5 4y agoSounds like a good reason to perhaps literally ban links to oa.mg on HN?
- neogodless 4y agoIt has now been re-submitted with the nature.com link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643396 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32643396
- dang 4y agoComments moved thither. Thanks!
- murphyslab 4y agoThe link should be changed to the DOI or a direct link to the journal article: - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01211-2 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-022-01211-2 - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41366-022-01211-2 Not sure why OP linked to this index. The article is Open Access, yet this intermediary site has a prominent "Buy article PDF →" link at the top which tries to sell it for $17. OA.mg seems like some kind of scam.
- neogodless 4y ago89% of the OP's comments contain a link to oa.mg So do most of their recent submissions. Presumably they have a vested interest in oa.mg selling access to papers. They previously linked to citationsy.com which came from the same team.
- murphyslab 4y agoOne would think the guideline applies here: > Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- neogodless 4y agoI would think so. And as far as the way this user is using their account and HN > Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity. (Of course by saying so, I'm breaking the guideline on insinuating the user is shilling.)
- MauranKilom 4y agoFor such cases, just email HN and describe the problem. It's both more effective (dang is guaranteed to see it) and disrupts the thread less.
- fpiacenza 4y agoThis might point as BMI not being the best metric to define obesity. I bet people with high BMI but low fasting glucose and low c-reactive protein are mostly athletes, people who weight a lot due higher muscular weight. It wouldn't be surprising they are healthier.
- twelve40 4y agoI have a weird feeling that the vast majority of high-BMI people somehow don't really fall into the athlete category.