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Open Science: Knowledge for Everyone
Science is for everyone, right? Unfortunately, that's not always true. Discovery, research and innovation are often top secret, and big businesses charge high prices for that information. The field of open science is trying to change that. It's all about sharing knowledge. Teams of scientists around the world are working together to improve and speed up scientific research and share their results so that everyone benefits. Open Knowledge for Everyone examines the history of scientific research and how ideas and information are shared and why. It also looks at innovations made using open science, such as treatments for diseases and vaccines to protect against viruses like COVID-19, discoveries that were only possible thanks to the sharing of information. Discover how regular people, including kids, can be citizen scientists and what we all can do to share science and make the world a better place.
96 pages, Hardcover
Published October 17, 2023
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June 19, 2023
Flawed but interesting and generally successful, this is a look at open science, and to some extent, citizen science. Beginning back in the early days of reporting data and experiments, we learn about patronage and science write-ups in expensive journals, as per the very closed science of old, before seeing how people can ignore patent lawyers, and give their nous away for free and for the common good. With a medical science basis, the book covers this and that, nudges on how people can provide their spare hours, energy and laptop processing downtime to profit research, and eventually how covid vaccines were created using publicly available data.
Yes, it is flawed though – counting Nobel prizes accurately but incorrectly at the same time, heaving on the White Man Guilt, and having far too many pictures of BLM stuff and nonsense for little reason. There are ulterior motives behind a lot of the later pages, for sure. That said, it is a decent portrait of the democratisation of science, just one tiny aspect of the history of science but one proven here to deserve a book of its own. This would have been sterling if it had reduced the political lessons and told us of the projects where our CPU can idle its way to discovering a new asteroid or whatever, for as I say citizen science is not fully ignored here, just heavily pushed to the side. I shouldn't be giving a book where I can see how major improvements were possible four stars, but as this is probably one of very few efforts on this topic, I cannot see any other option.
Yes, it is flawed though – counting Nobel prizes accurately but incorrectly at the same time, heaving on the White Man Guilt, and having far too many pictures of BLM stuff and nonsense for little reason. There are ulterior motives behind a lot of the later pages, for sure. That said, it is a decent portrait of the democratisation of science, just one tiny aspect of the history of science but one proven here to deserve a book of its own. This would have been sterling if it had reduced the political lessons and told us of the projects where our CPU can idle its way to discovering a new asteroid or whatever, for as I say citizen science is not fully ignored here, just heavily pushed to the side. I shouldn't be giving a book where I can see how major improvements were possible four stars, but as this is probably one of very few efforts on this topic, I cannot see any other option.
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