That is precisely the cultural shift I am talking about. If you are doing science, the thing you spend 60 hours a week doing should be "trying to understand th

That is precisely the cultural shift I am talking about. If you are doing science, the thing you spend 60 hours a week doing should be "trying to understand the world better." Once you have achieved some new understanding, you should want to share that understanding with others. What you're talking about are things like pride and profit, stubbornness and renown. My point was that the current science culture is currently as much about fame and pride as it is about understanding. In order to have any sort of anonymized, wiki-based science, we would need to ask people who have become famous and respected by doing things one way to start over in a new way.