> There's still some real science out there if you want it. :) I don't think this is a correct way of representing things. Science is a process, and it does n

> There's still some real science out there if you want it. :) I don't think this is a correct way of representing things. Science is a process, and it does not depend on finding out something someone never saw before or bothered to look at it. Scientific discovery is also not necessarily tied to the science. Someone can literally stumble upon a fossil and proceed to make it known to the public, but that won't make that person a scientist. What you actually described is that scientific discoveries can still be made by amateur scientists, and that science is not an exclusive domain of academia and professional researchers. That doesn't say much of interest though. In humanity's time scale, science has always been the domain of hobbyists. One of humanity's most recent breakthrough has basically born from amateur social clubs where people got together to show the things they hacked together. Of course professional scientists with lab budgets have more freedom.