18 NOV 2013 by ideonexus
How a Democratic Government Serves the People
In our democracy, government is not some make believe thing that has an independent will
of its own. In our democracy, government is just how we describe all of the things that “we the
people” have already decided to do together.
It is not complicated. Our government has three basic functions: provide for the national defense;
put in place rules of the road, such as speed limits, and bank regulations that are fair and
transparent; and build the things together that none of us can build a... 1 
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notesIt makes our lives safer in a myriad of ways and improves our quality of life.
03 SEP 2011 by ideonexus
How Peer Review Hurts Science
In my considered opinion the peer review system, in which proposals rather than proposers are reviewed, is the greatest disaster visited upon the scientific community in this century. No group of peers would have approved my building the 72-inch bubble chamber. Even Ernest Lawrence told me he thought I was making a big mistake. He supported me because he knew my track record was good. I believe that U.S. science could recover from the stultifying effects of decades of misguided peer reviewing...Folksonomies: peer review
Folksonomies: peer review
1 An interesting argument that the peer review process hurts science because ideas are evaluated by themselves, while the track record of the scientist should be considered.
