@TheMadPirate @Humpleupagus @Frondeur Science as an approach is not a marketplace, it is a series of techniques designed to produce and test hypothesis and formulate theories predicated upon those that fail to be disproved which can be tested for their predictive power and wider applicability

Science as an industry varies from trying to use science as an approach to produce goods and products (applied sciences) to the large body of non-use oriented science that is meant merely for publish

and in this science for publish industry, the science is anything but free or a marketplace - it serves primarily as a regime mechanism for smuggling political ideas into journals and studies to give them a veneer of plausibility to normies - those ideas are then be used by companies and governments to enact deeply unpopular and clearly false notions with a "a study says" argument

the published science industry has nothing to do with science as an approach, is rife with fraud and p hacking and fake data, and has very little replicability - if that is what you are studying, you are training to enter into a fraud industrial complex

> tldr - while science can refer to a tool and method, most science is a system to promote fictitious ideas for political and economic deceit,

> neither of those are a marketplace in which people trade goods or server