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Hi David, Am 11.12.2010 10:12, schrieb David Waldock: > Just off the top of my head, Galaxy Zoo? Yes, that's a citizen science project - and astronomy is the classical area of citizen science. But were the research question influenced or determined by the public? In my understanding, that was the claim that was being made. Sorry for being so persistent. I'm not opposed to the idea that involvement of the public can be beneficial to science, but it also seems to me that there is a certain danger of group-think here, so if we want to make a convincing case for it, it is really important to disect the argument. This becomes really relevant when this kind of argument is used to try to exert pressure on scientists (through funding arrangements or similar) to make science engagement part of the job and part of the portfolio of all scientists. Cheers Stephan -- Stephan Matthiesen http://www.stephan-matthiesen.de Neu auf www.science-texts.de: Abgegrast - Muster 12/2010 ********************************************************************** Further information about the psci-com discussion list, including list archive, can be found at the list web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/psci-com.html You may also change your settings and subscribe/unsubscribe to psci-com from the web site. Psci-com is part of the National Academic Mailing List Service, known as 'JISCMail'. It adheres to the JISCMail Acceptible Use Policy: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/acceptableuse.html and to the JISCMail guidelines for etiquette: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/etiquette.html Email commands: 1. To suspend yourself from the list, whilst on leave, for example, send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] with the following message: set psci-com nomail -- [include hyphens] 2. To resume email from the list, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: set psci-com mail -- [include hyphens] 3. To leave psci-com, send an email to [log in to unmask] with the message: leave psci-com -- [include hyphens] Please allow up to 24 hours for these commands to activate. Remember that you will need to send commands using the same email address that you used to register on psci-com. To contact the Psci-com list owner, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] **********************************************************************