"Science 2.0" is good for all of us

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Wish Science 2.0 was out earlier.: The peer review process is no doubt an important part of scientific evolution. However, the pressure for publication and the bias towards positive results has hindered the efficient communication, especially on the side of negative result. What more troublesome is the trend that people just care about results being published period. And care less, if any, in the worst case, if there is any issue in getting the results. The society as a whole is trying to address the problem via training and emphasis on ethic education. However, it seems to be losing battle in the old system. Because there have been quite a portion of scientists who established themselves one way or another by taking advantage of the aforementioned bias, intentionally or not. In addition, there has been an tremendous waste in scientific community by people repeating same/similar task unsuccessfully due to the fact that failure stories are always behind the closed door--hence nobody can learn from the unsuccessful. With all the scientific information freely accessible like Science 2.0, people can easily evaluate/comments on/ works that has been done. People don't need to reinvent the wheel on their own. In addition, with the original data accessible to the community easily, the peer-review process can be enhanced. One sad-fact in current science is the lack of repeat of published work--which is the backbone of science. More and more people take what is published as true without questioning. Usually only the high fly research will get the scrutiny. Science 2.0 will surely ease the hurdle to critically evaluate the results in literature. However, there will be an explosion in terms of the information Science 2.0 will bring to life--I sure hope that is one of the outcome. Thus the data mining could in times hinder the initial intention. Yet, I would still rather have all the available data to dig through before I start a new task, than finding it out later after my own failed trial.; Posted by: uslee Posted on: 04/22/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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