Some thinkers believe decentralized, blockchain-based, prediction markets could be the answer to the scientific community’s reproducibility crisis. These platforms allow users to wager on the results of scientific research. They offer a highly innovative approach to crowdsource validation and improve our collective judgment. Platforms like Polymarket and Pump.science demonstrate the...
The scientific community is grappling with a significant challenge: the reproducibility crisis. These are studies that cannot hold up under scrutiny — research, even published in top tier journals, that other researchers can’t reproduce. This undermines the reproducibility of findings and stalls progress in science. Now, decentralized prediction markets are...
The Ivory Tower is crumbling. We've all known it, haven't we? Years of questionable studies, retracted papers, and a peer-review system that seems more like a club handshake than rigorous scrutiny. The federal bureaucracy, once the stalwart implementers of Solomonic wisdom, are seen as a self-enriching dark web of corrupt...