[p2p-research] The evolution of P2P science

[Michel Bauwens]

Tom,

I don't know if you have time, but this would be a really good blog topic!

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Tomas Rawlings <tom at fluffylogic.net> wrote:

>
>
>> We will need to do biology research in fundamentally different social
>> contexts as we move into this next decade. This means biologists will need
>> to start pooling their knowledge through social networking channels, not
>> unlike how computer scientists have long done for open source software
>> development.
>>
>> *Stephen H. Friend is president, CEO and a co-founder of Sage Bionetworks,
>> an international genomic research collaborative. *
>>
>>
> I've been thinking that the whole climate change thing is interesting has
> it moves science into a p2p realm.  Take the example of the weather station
> monitoring data.  Far from simply being told "this is the way it is" we are
> now getting the raw data released to the public domain (
> http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/data-sources/ which is good) so
> people can do with it as they will.
>
> So some try to disprove global warming with it;
> http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/12/08/the-smoking-gun-at-darwin-zero/
> While others use it to disprove the attempted disprove;
> http://www.gilestro.tk/2009/lots-of-smoke-hardly-any-gun-do-climatologists-falsify-data/
> (Summary of this here;
> http://anarchist606.blogspot.com/2009/12/denailist-proves-global-warming-fraud.html)
>
> Either way, the release and use of the data into the public domain means
> p2p science is on the way...
>
> --
> Tomas
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