Hello,
I am not saying steemit should be the platform to decide whether someone gets funding or not. Although it would be fun if it could fund small sub-investigations in ongoing work. It could however be a platform to discuss research plans and elicit new input from other researchers/"the public".
I myself am involved in medicine and translational research and in our field it is common practice, and it gets more important each year, to involve patient perspective in research proposals. This patient perspective is also expected in the most basic laboratory research plans. Of course this is on the level of cells and proteins and not quarks, but still....
Of course funding agencies look at the proposals before funding (would be great if they wouldn't have to though...) however in my world the people in the boards are often the same people who do the research.
I myself would like to get new insights/ideas from the community who are not wrapped up in it like I am and might think out of the box. In addition it might be yet another way to appease the funding boards ;).
I guess I agree with your stance on the Pevo proposal :) Let's see where all this new energy leads us.
I fully agree with this. Discussions are never hurting.
Isn't it possible to find competitors working on very similar topics so that we could have (roughly) the two extremes taking decisions?