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The two things that are most ridiculous about science in this day and age (imo, I work in the field) 1) Tons of papers get published wit...

The two things that are most ridiculous about science in this day and age (imo, I work in the field) 1) Tons of papers get published without the underlying data. Why is there no easy system in place where I have to upload all data from experiments etc. and if the data isn't there to be verified -> questionable research at best (or in the current framework of science autoreject) 2) Paywalls and the entire publishing system. Most science is state funded in some way, shape or form and as such it should be available for free for all citizens. I think publish and improve is an ok model but there's some issues like the author says it's pretty strange how the whole redacting a paper system works. It's also nontrivial to say "well I was wrong in my paper X as shown in papers Y and Z" (some sort of HTTP redirect to X/Z would be in order) Maybe I'm just not aware of it but it would also be interesting to have a huge Dung-style argumentation system of papers for fields (X attacks Y, Z defends Y etc.). Might be a neat project if it doesn't exist.

Posted by kriro on May 4, 2015, 9:56 PM

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kriroMay 4, 2015, 9:56 PM

The two things that are most ridiculous about science in this day and age (imo, I work in the field) 1) Tons of papers get published without the underlying data. Why is there no easy system in place where I have to upload all data from experiments etc. and if the data isn't there to be verified -> questionable research at best (or in the current framework of science autoreject) 2) Paywalls and the entire publishing system. Most science is state funded in some way, shape or form and as such it should be available for free for all citizens. I think publish and improve is an ok model but there's some issues like the author says it's pretty strange how the whole redacting a paper system works. It's also nontrivial to say "well I was wrong in my paper X as shown in papers Y and Z" (some sort of HTTP redirect to X/Z would be in order) Maybe I'm just not aware of it but it would also be interesting to have a huge Dung-style argumentation system of papers for fields (X attacks Y, Z defends Y etc.). Might be a neat project if it doesn't exist.

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