Such an important aspect of saving civilization. I see this adjacent to a medical ethics project that conceived more than a year ago. Ethics plays a big part of this. I don't understand the block chain part, but if it solves a major obstacle, let's do it.
While he is a critic of peer review in general, I feel like Denis Rancourt is a great example by publishing much of his own research at denisrancourt.ca (his website).
He is also starting a new initiative at correlation-canada.org that seems to be the next level up, while not quite reaching the heights of what you've described here. Hopefully as more academics get together motivated to tackle this problem, enough demand will materialize.
Edit: Forgot to also mention Kevin McCairn who aims to crowdfund and livestream research through various platforms synapteklabs.com
Great article. I heard Dr. Gu's insistence that the "big studies" are the best studies. So naive. I spent 40 years in pharma/biotech and can't believe that physicians still don't know who controls the entire narrative on virtually every drug class.
👏👏👏👍👌🙏🙏 Yep. And more yep. I'd go one further and not just decentralise, but activate more Citizen Scientists, so we make sure we dont repeat the "silo" effect, that can be present, even in decentralised systems.
Thank you so much for making that. A very important article and it's great that you made it accessible to a much wider (more casual?) audience by putting it in video format.
Have you looked at the nostr protocol. Looks very interesting. Its just being used for messages and micro payments on the lightning network at the moment, but its very simple and flexible. Im sure it will have broad application, library and peer review were my first thoughts.
I think decentralizing the peer review process is a great start but alone it cannot solve the rampant fraud in the academic scientific community. There are still too many perverse incentives driven by the fight over funding, career progression, and limited faculty positions. Yes, the big pharma funded studies that public policy hinges on need far more oversight. Millions if not billions of lives potentially hang in the balance. However, if we cannot reform the system for generating basic knowledge about the nature of reality, then we will be continually confused about why our technologies fail to work as intended and the foundation of our civilization risks being undermined with potentially far worse consequences than mere poor public health policy.
Such an important aspect of saving civilization. I see this adjacent to a medical ethics project that conceived more than a year ago. Ethics plays a big part of this. I don't understand the block chain part, but if it solves a major obstacle, let's do it.
The blockchain serves 2 purposes.
1)Immutable, transparent global ledger that records time stamps of document version numbers.
2)An international censorship resistant payment rail that can be used to incentivize reviewers and pay for data hosting fees.
While he is a critic of peer review in general, I feel like Denis Rancourt is a great example by publishing much of his own research at denisrancourt.ca (his website).
He is also starting a new initiative at correlation-canada.org that seems to be the next level up, while not quite reaching the heights of what you've described here. Hopefully as more academics get together motivated to tackle this problem, enough demand will materialize.
Edit: Forgot to also mention Kevin McCairn who aims to crowdfund and livestream research through various platforms synapteklabs.com
Great article. I heard Dr. Gu's insistence that the "big studies" are the best studies. So naive. I spent 40 years in pharma/biotech and can't believe that physicians still don't know who controls the entire narrative on virtually every drug class.
The fundamental problem is 90% of voters think honest, peaceful adults should be regulated by bureaucrats.
👏👏👏👍👌🙏🙏 Yep. And more yep. I'd go one further and not just decentralise, but activate more Citizen Scientists, so we make sure we dont repeat the "silo" effect, that can be present, even in decentralised systems.
Well said, all of it.
But "Decentralize the truth engine" should become a maxim to counter Th'Science™.
Great article! Great title! We do need to re-focus and stick together.
We found this 'cos we made a video out of Khan's "It Doesn't Matter" Check it out here: https://rumble.com/v22fap0-arkmedic-it-doesnt-matter-covid-drama.html
Thank you so much for making that. A very important article and it's great that you made it accessible to a much wider (more casual?) audience by putting it in video format.
That's the idea! It was a test of sorts, simply to see how fast we could kick one out while the topic was hot. More to come!
"Fiat medicine." Love it!
Have you looked at the nostr protocol. Looks very interesting. Its just being used for messages and micro payments on the lightning network at the moment, but its very simple and flexible. Im sure it will have broad application, library and peer review were my first thoughts.
https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Has anyone a link to a good article breaking down the transfer of wealth that has occurred in the last 3 years?
I think decentralizing the peer review process is a great start but alone it cannot solve the rampant fraud in the academic scientific community. There are still too many perverse incentives driven by the fight over funding, career progression, and limited faculty positions. Yes, the big pharma funded studies that public policy hinges on need far more oversight. Millions if not billions of lives potentially hang in the balance. However, if we cannot reform the system for generating basic knowledge about the nature of reality, then we will be continually confused about why our technologies fail to work as intended and the foundation of our civilization risks being undermined with potentially far worse consequences than mere poor public health policy.
How do I get involved? Is there an email or website that you have detailing this project?