vast majority of academic research findings are false, academia is government cabal, state funding vast majority of science is a huge vulnerability, peer review incentives broken, margin or error widening.
arXiv is a nice dyor alternative nostr:note13yckj88h00a8vxxzm0glwccp7e9dc2muuehx64auzujnt0tces2s5lw5yj
Imagine working for a large scientific research center and usually publish via the center.
Imagine being told that one of your paper cannot be published via the center as it clashes with the dominant perspective of the center. (This mean not even have the opportunity of being proven wrong by your own peers, just censored)
Imagine heading to arxiv as an alternative. Imagine arxiv not publishing it either, at the request of the center.
Arxiv is not all that it pretends to be. Who maintains it these days?
There is more to this story… it ties in with the birth of the World Wide Web, the hope and excitement it promised to the scientific community, its corruption… and hopefully one day, Nostr.
We need an open protocol for science.
one option among many. agree would love to see nostr grow into this use case
#nostr can definitely help. There has been few attempts to decentralize the scientific activity before.
In fact, most of the scientific research these days in field is about statistical data analysis. What gets published is only the analyzed data, not the raw ones. If this can be shared openly along with open platform to publish your own theory to be reviewed by everyone, that would be very good for science.
Agree! More worse part is that handful of publishing houses control the access to wealth of knowledge. If you want to publish it ask for huge amount of money, but also when you want to read it, you have to pay for it. The peer reviewers chosen are not entirely under your control.
I miss that vibrancy from early 20th century like Eddington vs Chandrasekhar (on existence of black holes) and Einstein vs Quantum Mechanics community (whether God plays dice?!).
I agree. Tho arXiv did fix latency of publishing and closenesses of anon peer review process. This seems like the best solution for the above problems in academia for now. What do u think?
