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> The no credentials are accepted policy makes sure the experts stay away in droves. Imagine someone putting in decades of work to gain expertise in a field bei
by concinds 3y ago
> The no credentials are accepted policy makes sure the experts stay away in droves. Imagine someone putting in decades of work to gain expertise in a field being told they need to argue with a neckbeard with too much time on their hands. No thanks.
It's the unalterable division of labor. Scientists are experts, science journalists are clueless. You'll never get the first group to take up the job of the second group because they have way better, more interesting, more important things to do. Same with Wikipedia, even if experts were sought out, they wouldn't want to edit it.
- jowea 3y agoHow do you explain Stanford's Encyclopedia of Philosophy then? You'd only need a small fraction of the experts in any topic to write an article on the topic.
- Alpha3031 3y agoThe Conversation (the news outlet) also shows that scientists are interested in informing the public of their work. Communication is something of a different area of expertise to actually doing science though.