I have dreamed of something like this for years. Except I gave it a cutesy name ( Peer Review) and I would have framed it as a combination of GitHub and Stack o

I have dreamed of something like this for years. Except I gave it a cutesy name ( Peer Review) and I would have framed it as a combination of GitHub and Stack overflow intended to blow open scientific publishing and replace the journals by doing with simple software and crowdsourcing what they charge an arm, a leg, and a paywall for. Basically, if you provide a software mediated review system (both pre and post publish) and a reputation system, you can effectively replace most of what the journals provide. The hard part is getting the systematic buy in. If you can get that buy in though, the benefits would be huge. Imagine being able to solve the file drawer problem by incentivizing all publishing, not just novel publishing. Imagine being able to automate literature reviews with NLP and some machine learning. Imagine wanting to know what the scientific consensus was on any given topic and being able to go to a website where you can ask a question, get the literature review in answer, and then click through to individual papers in order to read the papers, their reviews, and the questions of the public answered by researchers. Imagine what that could do for world wide scientific understanding an acceptance - to have it all happening in the open, no longer mediated by a media incapable of good science reporting. I really hope this gets traction.