You can't have a million researchers do a 4000 man-year project in a day. There are decreasing marginal returns from throwing more people at a problem. Especia

You can't have a million researchers do a 4000 man-year project in a day. There are decreasing marginal returns from throwing more people at a problem. Especially if they are publishing, because now you need more people to curate their publications. And if you throw enough researchers at something, they are going to find a bunch of spurious results simply because of the luck of large numbers. I don't know if we are at that point. But adding a bunch of average people to a project can easily slow it down. If you want to help the existing researchers, mow their lawns and buy their groceries and take care of their house maintenance problems. Let them concentrate.