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I like this idea, but how much time would be spent re-teaching the citizen scientists the prerequisites needed to do research? Since most of the knowledge at th
by j2kun 10y ago
I like this idea, but how much time would be spent re-teaching the citizen scientists the prerequisites needed to do research? Since most of the knowledge at the forefront of research is in papers and not books, that seems like the biggest hurdle.
- cbHXBY1D 10y agoIt would be up to the citizen scientist to keep up with newly published papers. I think it would be interesting to create an environment that encourages the hobby scientist to follow the forefront of research. Maybe something like the Recurse Center but for maths and physics. I'm not sure where the funding would come from since the Recurse Center seems to make money from corporate recruiting. Maybe universities?
- maverick_iceman 10y agoNothing's stopping them even now (at least in most theoretical sciences). Almost all books and papers are freely if not always legally available in the internet. If they discover something they can write up a paper and submit it to an appropriate journal.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoWell, we could just clean up academia.
- maverick_iceman 10y ago'Clean up academia' sounds vaguely Stalinist to me.