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RE: Steem could transform scientific research culture - making research free, fun, legal and profitable!

in #steem7 years ago

Great stuff.

The biggest challenge I see is ensuring quality. Even if there's funding for research, what good if the model leads to bad research being done? Not that most papers being published currently are all that useful... but still, we would want to increase the overall quality of the science being done, not decrease it.

A possible model could be something like this: a researcher submits their proposed experimental design prior to conducting any experiment. Fellow researchers (which will act as peer review AND curation groups) tear apart the experimental design and suggest changes until everything they can think of looks alright. Then they upvote, which provides the funding for conducting the experiment or study. After the experiment is completed, the final paper with the results is published. As a bonus, the data could be uploaded to some open data database where other researchers can access it.

Sorry for not trashing your idea as you requested. Try harder to come up with a worse idea next time and I'll do my best.

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