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Friday, February 6, 2009
eScientific Method
I’d like to continue the discussion we started picking at in Wednesday’s class about science and the impact writing technology has had on it. It seemed like some of us believed we needed a concrete scientific process/method to ensure the integrity of new findings. Others thought having the ability to adapt and (paradigm) shift is a valuable capability. This aptitude to change would allow for the most efficient and productive way to discover new things, or even correct previous findings that were thought to be true. Writing technology can and will play a big part in this battle between strict science fundamentals and more flowing science ideas. For example, the common practice for spreading scientific ideas is through journals. These take a long time to produce, publish, and have reviewed. Having quicker, more streamlined information avenues such as blogs, wikis, RSS, etc could give new scientific knowledge the power to reach more people, faster. This new paradigm could leap frog scientific ideas out into the world at a rate we never imagined. The potential benefits could be huge, or could this be the beginning of the demise good science?
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I actually work with some doctors who are doing research and trying to get grants to gather data and publish in journals. The process is often long and very time consuming. A quicker process is needed so that the findings can be distributed faster throughout the scientific community.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you have said in this blog because to find a new scientific finding or any new inventions, it involves many help from other people such as the guy who thought of oxygen, but did not have a name or definition for it until someone else came up with it.
ReplyDeleteI agree that publishing new articles in science journals is a very long process. Like you said on Birt's blog, technology and science play off of each other. So maybe it is time for the technology to help in shortening this process.
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