> It's great that citizen science space for collecting ecological or biodiversity data is is growing. As great as would be having less professional physicians,

> It's great that citizen science space for collecting ecological or biodiversity data is is growing. As great as would be having less professional physicians, promoting cheap children soldiers instead professional ones or using trained monkeys to build the brakes of our car and manage the economy The so called "Citizen science" means more amateurs and less professionally trained people really focused in solving real problems that are difficult and complex. Solutions that are required to survive at long term But, yeah, lets assign this task to scholars in their spare time and we will have it for free. In the end what you will have is databases corrupted with fake data. A set of "true scientific facts" for democrats and another set of "true facts" saying exactly the opposite for republicans.