Sure, theoretically you’re right, but in practice there are thousands of extremely well-qualified researchers being paid to assess such research plans. I don’t

Sure, theoretically you’re right, but in practice there are thousands of extremely well-qualified researchers being paid to assess such research plans. I don’t know if it’s reasonable to expect that the general public will simply start to evaluate research projects all of a sudden, voluntarily and effectively. There is a huge potential for pseudoresearch to thrive in this model.