Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”
by djohnston on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:51AM
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If you only permit established domain experts to voice ideas you will severely limit potential advancements. Innovation is often the product of multiple disciplines intersecting to produce something novel.
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Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”
by nil-sec on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:18PM
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Do you have an example from the last, say 20 years, where an actual amateur made any significant scientific contribution to an established field? I have strong doubts such a person exists. Simply because science, at the very least, requires you to be aware of what has been done already. Of course there are collaborations between researchers but this is a totally different point.
Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”
by ryanwaggoner on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:10PM
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Public health policy in the midst of a global pandemic strikes me as the wrong place for innovation by amateurs with zero experience in any relevant fields.