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There seems to be an open debate on whether the current system of peer-review actually weeds out papers correctly. This experiment re-submitted 12 already approved papers and 89% of the peer reviewers said the paper shouldn’t be published. More recently hundreds of sham papers managed to get through the process as scammers posed as guest editors.
Nikhil Krishnan • Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs: the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing
Although noninvasive means of scanning the brain from outside the skull are rapidly improving, the most practical approach to capturing every salient neural detail will be to scan it from inside. By 2030, “nanobot” (i.e., nano robot) technology will be viable, and brain scanning will be a prominent application. Nanobots are robots that are the size... See more
Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections
One possible resolution that people have discussed is a new "streaming" publisher, similar to iTunes or Spotify, which offers a catalog of all papers for a flat fee. But a more radical approach would be a crypto Sci-Hub, one that might even offer enough financial incentive to legacy publishers to flip them over to open access for their entire archi... See more
Crypto Sci-Hub and the Decentralization of Science
Researchers from the United States suspect that there are definite disadvantages to our powerful brain. They compared the self-destructive programming of human cells with a similar program run by ape cells. This program destroys and dismantles old and defective cells. Their comparison showed that the cleanup mechanism is a lot more effective in ape
... See morePeter Wohlleben • The Secret Wisdom of Nature: Trees, Animals, and the Extraordinary Balance of All Living Things -— Stories from Science and Observation (The Mysteries of Nature Trilogy Book 3)
David Lang: Most scientists are under tremendous pressure to constantly publish. That realization caused me to view scientific expertise through the lens of incentives. I’m nervous to use that language, because it’s the same line that conspiracy theorists use to deny and obfuscate facts, but I do think it’s the fault line.
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
David Freedman, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science,” Atlantic, October 4, 2010, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-damned-lies-and-medical-science/308269/.
Leslie F. Stebbins • Finding Reliable Information Online: Adventures of an Information Sleuth
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