Future “Facebook for Scientists”? A Scientist Weighs In. « Hypios – Thinking #yam

What is Science 2.0, or Open Science?  In a nutshell: it’s about showing the work.  As Thomas Kuhn noted nearly 50 years ago, most scientific experiments are never repeated.  The journal write-up is all that we have to judge and verify scientific work.  We mention this not to cast a relativistic light on scientific results, but only to sharpen the reasons one might have to champion making raw data, intermediate-stage thoughts, and even speculations available online.  As Mietchen put it, instead of imagining publication as the ultimate step of the research process, it becomes an iterative step at every stage of research.  The argument is that this will increase and intensify scientific activity.