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The whole reputation dependency is highly problematic. It puts people in spotlight that produce a lot of papers which get some spotlight, but serious scientists
by poelzi 11y ago
The whole reputation dependency is highly problematic. It puts people in spotlight that produce a lot of papers which get some spotlight, but serious scientists that put a lot of time and thought into one paper and only produce a dozen in their lifetime get under in the flood of papers we have now.
Everybody in science knows that the quality of papers has degraded over the last 10 years, just the amount went up enormously.
I dream and hopefully get this project into development that takes a different route. First, instead of letting 1-2 people decide if a paper is ok, everybody can test and classify it. Math or logic errors are obvious once, but also a dependency tree is required. Which methods are used, which tools etc.
Each user will then have the possibility to follow others and accept their view, which means, their trust in a particular method as well as trusting in methods itself.
To give an example: One may trust in classical logic, but not mathematical logic (yes, there is a huge difference). When a paper uses a statistical method that requires mathematical logic, this paper does not have a truth value for you, but maybe for someone else who believes in it. Or you don't accept method xy, or a specific apparatus.
You may also say: you accept all papers that got reviewed by at 10 people somewhere in your web of trust.
http://vixra.org/why http://vixra.org/why
censorship in science does happen and it helps nothing. Every great scientific change in thinking sounded nuts or at least strange in the beginning and very often reviewers are not open minded and don't let math and logic rule but their feeling.
Since I found a physical model that requires only classical logic not a mathematical one, I'm not so sure if I should accept anything that requires mathematical logic at all (outside of a purely mathematical space). It's nearly impossible to go through all the details in a paper and found their chain of proves to check what requirements a paper has.