We can create the future of science right now

Most of the parts we need are already being built

At this point it is uncontroversial to say that science needs to stop using the PDF article as the unit of knowledge and currency. The unbearable slowness of scientific publishing, the profit motive and margins. I’m not saying anything new. The PDF also sucks because it’s hard to extract structured information from, which makes it hard to do evidence synthesis. As a result, we do much less evidence synthesis than is needed. And evidence synthesis ultimately undergirds most policy and medical decision making. I can see second by second real time odds for any sporting or newsworthy event, but…

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