• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    4 months ago

    Does it require independent peer review though? How do you achieve that with without publication? The predatory publication system is a different point.

    Edit: fix without

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      4 months ago

      Wouldn’t this imply that science didn’t exist before academic publication existed? Was zero science conducted before the ~1600s then?

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        4 months ago

        Possibly. I can’t come up with any major results that wasn’t either logic, engineering or tradition. But it’s an interesting question. What might count as science before then?

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        4 months ago

        Fair point, I should specify “modern science”. There’s quite a gap of scientific quality between traditional medicine and modern science based medicine for example.

      • OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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        4 months ago

        Was zero science conducted before the ~1600s then?

        I mean, yes. The framework of studying things that we understand as science did not always exist.

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          4 months ago

          Every time someone thinks science and studying natural phenomena are the same thing Newton sheds a single tear from his non-poked eye.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        not as a discipline. If you publish an experiment to the extent it can be reproduced, it is science, so its happened before but in a less intentional fashion