We kind of think of science as an embodiment of modernity, and therefore modern. What it is though is an institution, similar to academia and fairly old. Human

We kind of think of science as an embodiment of modernity, and therefore modern. What it is though is an institution, similar to academia and fairly old. Human institutions take time to change. In any case, I'm pretty excited that it's coming under pressure to improve. Publication is really a method of communication and the revolution in communication of the last generation is a profound step change in human history, in my opinion. To use some terms that our great predecessors would have been comfortable with, science is a way to uncover the truth using light. Experimentation, debate, publication, review: these are all ways of making light. Bringing modern communication into science and the collaborative opportunities inherent in better communication is a potentially very bright light. Nature, and Nature's Laws lay hid in Night. God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was Light. -- Alexander Pope Reproducibility and negative results are two parts of the same problem, and fundamental one in science since the beginning. A better method for solving it (using a computer (: ), is probably coming. If not now, within ten years. Maybe twenty. Soon.