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Today, you can do what the early scientists did back in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s. They weren't associated with a college, and had no degree. Self-publish
by simonblack 3y ago
Today, you can do what the early scientists did back in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, 1800s. They weren't associated with a college, and had no degree.
Self-publish. And today you can self-publish on a website and Google, etc, will broadcast that you have done so far and wide. Then your thesis will have to stand or fall on its own merits.
I suppose you could look on this as "Build It and They Will Come".
You could even request for peer-review and supply an email address for discussion. Be aware that breakthroughs are always fought savagely. Be ready for lots of negative reviews. They will need to be strongly debated. We hope you are ready for that.
- eesmith 3y ago> today you can self-publish ... your thesis will have to stand or fall on its own merits. It really depends on the OP's goal. I've too often seen snooty academics who ignore the non-academic literature - even when they know about it. In one case, something like "we are the first to compare X to Y", and when I pointed to two different blog posts, by two different projects, comparing X to Y, and finding the same conclusion as the paper, the corresponding author said something like "that work was insufficiently scholarly". In practice, what happens is that people search for previous work using Google Scholar, or subscription-based equivalents. If they can't find it that way, it doesn't really exist to most of the people who need it. Which means that self-publishing doesn't fall simply on its own merits - it can also fall because it isn't where people are looking.