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There is also a new Medical Journal that was started by 3 (?) health freedom advocates, of whom 2 (?) are destined for public office. Sorry was not paying attention but it seemed to be a wonderful initiative.

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typo alert in title:

DECNETRALIZE

article shared, nice work

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Thanks

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Your post is spot on! It’s important to note that this scientific decentralization wasn’t occurring in isolation, it was part of a broader system where political, economic, governmental, and scientific decentralization were all interdependent. The country at the time had baked-in redundancy in each of these spheres and its likely that one being decentralized required the other three to be decentralized as well. Scientific decentralization required economic and governmental decentralization to sustain independent funding sources, competing research institutions, and multiple avenues for knowledge dissemination (for example, we had deliberately redundant industry that all had their own R&D ecosystems partly their won associated Academic ecosystems and banking and finance were both economically and governmentally decentralize din a way that geographically, societally, and sectorally diffused both access to money and decision making related to its deployment). Likewise, political decentralization reinforced local autonomy over education and research priorities, allowing a diversity of approaches to flourish rather than being dictated by a single or small number of network(s)

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Thanks for reading!

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Do you have any ideas how we fix it?

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Well, I've come to learn the basic principles of what they had going on and the solution would be for for us to rebalance a significant amount of economy policy back towards the states (ideally we'd constitutionally amend to give cities back power that in the first half of the twentieth century big shots used the states to degrade and then later used the feds to almost eliminate.

Banking and finance could be restored, It wasn’t until the advent of the so-called Neoliberal Era that we fully centralized—through measures like the de facto ending of interstate banking competition inhibitors (which were de jure ended in the late 1990s), a whole series of events regarding pension funds (often referenced through ERISA) that eliminated the ability to have geographic and/or sectoral biases in one’s local area, and similar changes to insurance funds.

Then we have what I find particularly messed up—they made credit unions not really credit unions anymore, stripping them of their role as decentralizers. There was also the de facto elimination of S&Ls without replacing them with anything. S&Ls were just the latest iteration of a type of financial decentralizer that had existed for hundreds of years. And, of course, there were some other things as well.

Our Academe was also decentralized, Prior to the post WW2 centralization and consolidation the USA had a decentralized, vast, diversified, pluralistic, and vibrant educational system of systems in which many scientists, engineers, business leaders, and professionals did not attend what we now call college, instead learning through apprenticeships, independent professional schools, military, various kinds of technical institutes, and other forms of specialized training. Even during the Progressive Era, education remained decentralized, with a mix of classical, vocational, and applied learning pathways coexisting.

Our two parties, which dominated policy decision making were once decentralized and publicly accessible mass-member parties, that needs to return in some form

And all those things then in turn enable there to be a very heterogenous and diffused industry that has a lot of deliberate redundancy which is key for having those things in science

and there more but I'd have to think about it

The problem is that these reforms would harm a lot of powerful special interest groups, but if capital "G" Globalization collapses so will much of their power as well as the the equilibrium in our political economy that enables them. So...

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Another ongoing problem has been the predatory retraction of valid studies which conflict with corporate interests. Publishers can be blackmailed over their Thomson Reuters impact factor, who in turn can go over the heads of editors and retract valid studies. That would be harder to do with independent decentralized journals, where the only recourse for the predators would be to send a comment paper to be published with a reply from the authors.

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Extraordinary. And the average person has no idea whatsoever.

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I would love to see swarm intelligence and open discourse along the whole of scientific research - from the design of studies to the analysis of the results. It's a travesty that researchers are allowed to carry out badly-designed research and are not compelled to show raw data. As far as I can see, so much of what we call research is just a marketing arm of those funding it.

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Scientism started with the canonization of Saint Einstein by the judeo-press.

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Holy sh**. It's no wonder that seventy-something percent of all minds are nothing more than warehouse inventory for the big boys who can make them believe anything they need them to believe.

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Can't reach it from Mexico::

jcomeau@lapazhome:~$ traceroute swarmacademy.ai

traceroute to swarmacademy.ai (108.160.195.147), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets

1 _gateway (192.168.86.1) 2.903 ms 2.856 ms 2.835 ms

2 192.168.1.254 (192.168.1.254) 4.693 ms 4.671 ms 4.652 ms

3 172.31.255.255 (172.31.255.255) 17.809 ms 17.790 ms 17.773 ms

4 customer-xxxxxxxxxx.uninet.net.mx (189.246.x.x) 27.637 ms 27.620 ms 27.600 ms

5 ae-3.a03.lsanca20.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.197.177) 28.134 ms 34.701 ms 26.218 ms

6 ae-7.r26.lsanca07.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.95) 26.202 ms 31.030 ms 30.942 ms

7 ae-3.r22.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.7.68) 63.289 ms 138.908 ms 138.852 ms

8 ae-0.r23.dllstx14.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.21) 138.819 ms 203.828 ms 203.775 ms

9 ae-0.r24.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.151) 203.527 ms 203.504 ms 203.478 ms

10 ae-3.a05.chcgil09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.7) 203.456 ms 203.433 ms 203.395 ms

11 ce-5-0-1.a05.chcgil09.us.ce.gin.ntt.net (128.241.8.109) 203.374 ms 203.350 ms 203.551 ms

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17 147.195.160.108.in-addr.arpa (108.160.195.147) 204.104 ms 203.913 ms 204.164 ms

18 147.195.160.108.in-addr.arpa (108.160.195.147) 3276.502 ms !H 3271.182 ms !H 2451.809 ms !H

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sorry, just saw your reply now from my previous comment.

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You mean SwarmAcademy.ai?

Sorry almost done upgrading it

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