The Science Fiction of Medical Quackery: Ray Bradbury's “Skeleton”, 2020, Smith and Stone

Jon Stone writing disapprovingly about quackery - let's just savour the irony..

Paywall (no abstract), https://headachejournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/head.13852
Sci hub, https://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/head.13852

 

I don't know who that woman is who waves at the side of the screen but she is driving me nuts. Does anyone know how I could get rid of that side panel?

 

I've just discovered my own solution. I opened the calculator program on my PC, resized it appropriately, and positioned it in front of the woman.

 

Click on 'Save' underneath the bird head, and then click on the download that will appear in the bottom left (on my laptop anyway). This will then open a PDF of the article, and you can then close the web page with the annoying waving person .

 

It's Alexandra Elbakyan and you can block components of a website with ublock origin (Chrome based browsers) or similar in other browsers.

 

as @Snow Leopard has pointed out it's Alexandra Elbakyan, the creator of sci-hub;
it's thanks to her you can read the paper and many others at all.

 

I thought it might be her. I would have preferred a still picture of her rather than one where she constantly waves.

 

If you click on her picture it brings up her bio, which includes her email address. You could always send her a polite email explaining how this is distracting to your reading an article, and could she put up a still photograph instead.

Edit: Actually, after clicking on the waving picture, this opens a second tab with her bio. If you then go back to the original tab, the picture has disappeared from the box. So this is a really quick solution if you don't want to download the article as a PDF.