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OpenSourceScience is a public space for managing controversial scientific experiments in a way that provides open access to of all phases of the research. We provide a centralized resource for scientific collaboration, and help underwrite scientifically rigorous experiments that may contribute to an improved understanding of human consciousness.
The essence of the open source model is the rapid creation of innovative results within an inclusive and collaborative environment. At OpenSourceScience, we bring together the skeptical community, controversial science researchers, and interested laypeople to help design and facilitate high-quality scientific experiments. Our community encompasses multiple points of view joined together by a commitment to "follow the data". This spirit of cooperation promises to improve the long-term viability of our results.
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On OpenSourceScience Collaboration:
“OpenSourceScience is a brilliant idea and the next natural step in the promotion of science and skepticism through the new wikinomics model being adopted by millions of people around the world as the next wave of information transfer. I am starting Skeptipedia. Someone else has already created Skeptiwiki. We're all on this journey together to understand how the world works and what our place in it is, so let's take this next step together.”
Dr. Michael Shermer, Publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and author of
Why People Believe Weird Things
“"This is an excellent project. I hope that Open Source Science will be open minded science, based on reason and evidence rather than prejudice and dogma. It could make a major and much needed contribution to research in controversial areas, where most discussions generate more heat than light."
Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Director of the Perrott-Warrick Project, and author of
Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
“Genuine skepticism is essential and healthy to scientific inquiry. But it’s not easy maintaining the mental state required to be genuinely skeptical – open and honestly sympathetic to 'new,' even apparently crazy ideas -- and to be critically-minded at the same time. I hope OpenSourceScience is able to foster this kind of skepticism and use it to advance our understanding of these controversial areas of science.”
Dr. Dean Radin, senior scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences and author of Entangled Minds
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“In the end we have the same goals, design research that is carried out in such a way that it doesn’t matter what you believe, that the results will be valid despite the belief of the researcher... I would be happy to cooperate in definitive research. You have two schools of thought, two groups that interpret all the existing evidence with opposite conclusions… what happens is that eventually they design studies that everybody agrees are the right kind of studies...then you get some results and everybody believes the new results...”
Dr. Steven Novella, host of Skeptics' Guide to the Universe full interview
“I think these questions should be asked… you want to do it with transparency, you want to do it inviting as many people to...poke their head in and look at what you’re doing as possible...be skeptical...you want to examine something critically and believe in it, if you end up believing in it, because you have good reasons to believe in it...”
D.J. Grothe, Host of Point of Inquiry full interview
“OpenSourceScience is about bridging the gap between scientifically minded skeptics, and controversial researchers. There are too many smart people on both sides of this debate for that not to happen.”
Alex Tsakiris, Host of Skeptiko
