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Well, for one, you can't read a lot of scientific journals without paying massive fees.

That arguably slows down the pace of medical advance.

One might note that those massive fees do not go to the "creatives", in this case the scientists. The scientist do the research, write the papers, peer-review the papers of others, edit the journals... and the publisher pockets the money. That's the case with most "intellectual property" -- the person who actually gets paid the lion's share is not the "creative".