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I can't help but wonder how many of the issues with scientific papers couldn't be solved with technology. The notion that science is so deeply rooted in antiqua
by t0mbstone 6y ago
I can't help but wonder how many of the issues with scientific papers couldn't be solved with technology. The notion that science is so deeply rooted in antiquated concepts like paper journals and academic constructs like tenure is absurd when the internet has been around for as long as it has.
For example, imagine if scientific papers were voted up or down by a community, kind of like stack overflow.
Or imagine if scientific papers had to publish all of their source materials and instructions for replicating the experiment, and there was a system for tracking and showing whether or not the experiment had been validated or disproven?
What if you "game-ified" scientific papers and gave people points for publishing, but also gave people twice as many points for disproving a paper?
Imagine if we had a platform for tracking scientific theories and experiments that was a combination of democratic/meritocratic administration (like wikipedia), change logging/tracking (like github), and reputation management (like stack overflow)...