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The power of community is grossly underestimated in this country. Current collaborative trends on the Internet, from Web 2.0 to Wikipedia models, are seen as merely social or arguably informative in nature. That's a bit like saying the U.S. Constitution, another collaborative work, is a fetching flight of fancy thoroughly detached from real world application. Such a claim may be attempted, but it doesn't make a dent in the enduring truth of a multigenerational community commitment. In effect, community works on the Web soar past geographic boundaries and political restraints.
Selling science is nothing new. A number have sold quackery and fakery, as well as, real science. Here is the problem. Around the turn of the last century a number of devices were purported to cure all man's diseases with electricity (and magnetism). Seems they were a little ahead of their time, and a bit misguided. There are certain beneficial effects to the human body using electricity and magnatism. There are also important diagnostic tools using electricity and magnatism.
Which salesman will succeed will be interesting, as "the rest of the world accepts" a number of ideas as "scientific fact" when they are not. We are a gullible group of beings. A tad delusional too.
Which salesman will succeed will be interesting, as "the rest of the world accepts" a number of ideas as "scientific fact" when they are not. We are a gullible group of beings. A tad delusional too.
