Traditional Science, Reimagined for the Modern World
Assured Science is a non-profit organization designed to serve as a satellite to the traditional scientific research system.
Our Objectives
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- Democratize the scientific research enterprise as much as possible.
- Mitigate funding, mechanism, and data problems that undermine the success and efficiency of scientific research in the traditional system.
- Enable researchers to generate vastly superior data in a very efficient manner.
- Empower researchers to self-sustain their careers for as long as they want, on their own terms.
Our Tasks
Assured Science's research system will address a series of problems that exist in the traditional research system, including:
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Funding
- Only 10-20% grants funded; at least another 40-50% more are fundable
- Only ~ 30% renewal rate for funded grants
- About 40% of funded scientists experience 1 to 8 year funding gaps
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Mechanisms
- Highly inefficient: data, projects, money, time, and talent are wasted
- Emphasis on elimination and policing rather than on facilitation and guidance
- Easily “gamed”
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Data
- Very idiosyncratic; majority not validated or integrated
- Increasing false leads, incomplete sets, and retractions
- Highly dispersed, incoherent, and unwieldy
Our Motivation
These issues are not new, and we are not the first to address them. Some of the limitations of previous attempts or proposals include:
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- Unrealistic financial requirements (many suggesting a 200-300% increase)
- Dependence on the sacrifice and idealistic behavior of those who already flourish within the system
- Expectation for change without incentive or penalty
- Only a marginal impact on the overall value of research data
- Not addressing many other systemic problems undermining the scientific research enterprise
Our Solution
The scientific community is in desperate need of a research system that works better. We have the blueprints for a system that:
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- Combines principles of scientific inquiry, engineering, computer science, economics, business, biology, and journalism to create a vibrant and robust system for research.
- Operates as the superior alternative system to facilitate all scientific researchers self-sustaining their research projects, whether they are basic, applied, or even amusing.
- Works within today’s funding limits, and yet provides vast potential for growth and support to both research and researchers.
- Uses natural motivations and modern solutions to solve the funding, mechanism, and data problems that are undermining scientific research.
- Helps institutions to maximize both the number of their people actively conducting scientific research and recovery of the expense for providing them facilities and infrastructure.
- Provides robust, validated, and integrated data that are archived in a well organized manner for efficient utilization.
- Accelerates progress in scientific research, creates new scientific research-based careers, and maximizes the benefits from scientific research to society.