OA Un-Wired

There's a piece in this month's Wired about Harold Varmus. It begins

Last night, Harold Varmus appeared to me in a dream. Dressed in cycling garb, the Nobel laureate and former director of the National Institutes of Health was on a mission to rid the world of corks.

It's OK about Varmus, as far as it goes, but it completely misses the significance of open access (and downplays the role of Brown and Eisen).

Maybe I'm just bitter that I proposed an article on open access to Wired's editor, Chris Anderson, over a year ago, and he was completely uninterested. Several times.

Perhaps I should have put in something about corks.