On 9/17/06, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 9/17/06, Kim van der Linde kim@kimvdlinde.com wrote:
geni wrote: Science determined by popular vote?
A popular vote of of scientists would not be the worst description of what goes on. Although of course the actual process is ar more complex.
Also varying wildly from scientific discipline to discipline, and beyond that from subspecialty to subspecialty. There are small fields of science where there are no more than a handful of practitioners, and those with thousands.
This rather describes wikipedia although hopefully people will spend less time worrying about the philosophy of the wikipedia method (hmm "what is this thing called wikipedia editing" doesn't quite have the same ring).