[munificent]

> However, I find this rather harsh aversion to paying a few bucks for peer-reviewed, scientific content curious.

I already paid for it. A fraction of my taxes go to funding educational organizations so that they can produce these papers.

Even then, if the $15 actually went back to the author, I'd be OK with double-dipping, but it doesn't.

[me_again]

Just because an organization receives some tax-based revenue from the government doesn't mean their operations are or can be fully-funded by that