>>142005904chan could potentially majorly affect the scientific world and academia indirectly, but its direct effects are small and will probably always will be. There was the superpermutations thing, but I doubt direct influence will ever go beyond minor problems like that. However, 4chan has shown the capability to majorly affect the world indirectly through things like Qanon and arguably Trump's election to an extent. I could see a scenario where a movement against things like science's garbage peer review process, the replicability crisis, corporate/ideological bias in some fields and journals, etc starts here and progresses in a simpler form to other social media platforms with actual influence, like Qanon did with Facebook. I don't think it's likely but it's not impossible either. That's an example of something that actually could be a good thing, but it could easily be a movement rooted in something way more retarded, in which case it would be a bad thing like Qanon was. Altogether, I'd rather have 4chan and the possibilities allowed by an anonymous, uncensored, autist haven. Bad ideas and movement like Qanon usually fizzle out and good ones usually stick around in some form even if they're not successful.
