A Proposal For Scientific Publishing

[swamidass (S. Joshua Swamidass)]

@Robert_Byers

if someone writes on PS a great case, idea, criticism, defence in a scientific matter and it tAKES OFF and becomes famous then why, in atomic structure, is it not OFFICIALLY a published thing??
PS is a publisher. literally.

I very much agree with you here. See for example: Heliocentric Certainty Against a Bottleneck of Two?. This was literally one of the reasons we started the forum. See? Post #61.

@Robert_Byers

Therefore it could only be what counts as high end publishing WHERE a methodology/rules is in force.
yet its possible, with future cases, the science publishing industry will be overturned by the internet.
Why not?
If everyone reads your stuff then who needs a publisher? Its published!!

We are in shifting times…

scientific publishing started out as letters back and forth between scientists, and books, then meetings. For a long time now it has been journals. It does seem it is going to go through a revolution before my career is over. Even @Robert_Byers sees it coming…