 Short statement on open science based on some buck of napkin calculations There are roughly seven billion people in the world out of which roughly one billion speaks English as a first or foreign language Depending how we count estimates vary There are seven to seventy million scientists in the world and their dominant language of communication is also English Comparable Arias look like this These scientists produce lots of research outputs which they can keep for themselves as they do so far or they can share These outputs with the rest of the world Non-scientists can read these outputs to simply make better informed decisions But also they can read and reuse for example in teaching or in business Or they can read and contribute back for example in citizen science projects There's no point to keep our work available to a small fraction of world's population if potential is much bigger Please support open science