Bad Science or Science Done Badly?
Is 'Science', as practiced by Academic Researchers, executed poorly? More specifically: Is the practice of Research as undertaken by Academics, as effective as it could be? This posits that an aspect of "Professional Research" is intentionally increasing your capability and effectiveness. Computing/Information Technology is a Cognitive Amplifier - exactly suited to central parts of "Professional Research" - e.g. learning, recalling and searching published papers and books. If an individual researcher can increase their "knowledge uptake" just 7% in a year, after a decade they know twice as much, given uptake builds on existing knowledge. What is Research about if not Knowledge: Gathering, Analysis, Representation, Taxonomy/Ontology, Management and Communication? This field began in 1995 and is broadly known as "Knowledge Management". An observation: Electronic recalling & searching are orders of magnitude faster than pure paper s...