Working with a labmate is also constant surveillance. I think you're dressing it up to be something far more negative than it actually is. I think streaming or

Working with a labmate is also constant surveillance. I think you're dressing it up to be something far more negative than it actually is. I think streaming or recording would decrease cynicism. The openness would allow scientists to avoid false idolatry of people who juiced their citations with fraudulent research. And the cost of dealing with the fallout from fraud would be eliminated. I suspect that the fraud itself is a big accelerant of the hypercompetitive publish or perish phenomenon. Maybe some funding of a transparent program could be allocated toward severance for scientists who honorably choose to "perish". Of course, perishing in this case means still being able to live as a civilian outside of academia. And that person can still speak to those in charge of research projects and benevolently influence the arc of human understanding, which for most good people is enough of an incentive to continue living and contributing. Folks who wouldn't want to be transparent in their methodology could still do science the old way, they just wouldn't have access to the extra funding.