A couple of years ago I spoke to my near-phd biochem friend and discussed this problem with him at length. I have since come to believe that what science needs

A couple of years ago I spoke to my near-phd biochem friend and discussed this problem with him at length. I have since come to believe that what science needs is a git of science. Aka, a scientific way to build science over from scratch and explore different approaches and research in a version control kind of way. A property of science is that existing research should be immutable, so you can see the natural progression over time, so for this I thought a blockchain seemed a good fit. Scientists do research and peer review each other in exchange for a token. Other scientists can then easily access and improve/build on existing science, with no journal incentives required to keep academics afloat. And yes I am aware safeguards will need to be put in place to prevent gaming the system, but using AI, it should be relatively easy to actually capture the entire history of science on the chain and verify the knowledge.