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Asked by roirry to Connor, Jillian, Lidunka, Sarah, Steven on 14 Jun 2015.
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Lidunka Vocadlo answered on 14 Jun 2015:
I hope so – I have published a fair few papers which all get “peer reviewed”. This means that other scientists from all over the world look at the work and decide whether it is worthy of publication. I also get money to do the research – and to get the money you have to convince other scientists that what you are doing is good – and I do OK on that to. So yes, I think the science community do respect my work!
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Jillian Scudder answered on 14 Jun 2015:
I’ve had very good luck with this so far. Part of getting the respect of the scientific community is being very careful with your work, and part of it is presenting your work well and dealing with questions on your methods well. The papers themselves that you write up have to be refereed by an anonymous scientist; if they have concerns with your work their job is to bring them up before it gets published and goes out into the community.
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Steven Thomson answered on 14 Jun 2015:
Revealing your research to the scientific community is always a bit nerve-wracking. To make sure others take it seriously, we have to make sure we do the best job we can.
The scientific method helps us do that – it involves testing our ideas, not just looking for evidence that supports them, but trying to find things that might disprove our ideas. Before we publish anything, we have anonymous colleagues ‘peer review’ our work and see if they think it’s correct. If we can prove to the anonymous peer reviewers that we’ve done a good job, then usually the scientific community respects our work!
Sometimes scientists disagree, but that’s not necessarily a lack of respect. Often, disagreements arise from discoveries so new that no one knows for sure how they works. Different people come up with different ideas that all need tested. That’s how science works and it’s really exciting!
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