>>13917923>Publishing everything for free is good and important but people will yell it's socialismWhy would it be socialism? Governments (a.k.a. taxpayers) are already paying for all of the publishing, except that the current model also lines the pockets of publishers (unnecessary middlemen)
>Making science funding rely on unwashed masses for funding is no goodDo you have any better ideas? Especially since you propose banning private funding of any kind later on in your post
>crap studies will attract 90% of fundingI have not yet seen this to happen (maybe Im lucky), but overall agree, government money should be on a tight leash (even though restrictions for government grants are already pretty strict where I work)
>Fire vast majority of scientists spamming shitty studiesWe run into the problem of defining scientific quality. This could also kill almost all science in developing countries leaving only the elites who already have it pretty good
>make being a paid researcher an elite professionthis has been tried and failed multiple times. How do you propose it should be done?
>prevent people wasting supplies/machine timeWe run into the problem of defining what work/approach to a problem is considered wasting
>volunteers can do their own researchThe absolute majority of non-scientists or grad students have no/insufficient knowledge of science to be able to do any meaningful work without being handheld/babysitted. Also volunteer==unpaid, noone is going to do that, especially since most people are not interested in science in the first place
>Ban private research grantsWhy? Good work can be done in studies funded by private companies as well
