Funding this Journal of High Standards wouldn’t be a cheap project
So where is the money going to come from? You’re talking about seeing this as a type of grant, but the amount of money available for grants and XPrize type organizations is finite and heavily competed for. How are you going to convince people that this is a better way of making scientific progress than the countless other options available?
The main point of the post is floating the idea. Discussing the idea helps different people to estimate it’s value. If people find the idea worthwhile it can spread and maybe someone who does have the kind of money for it decides to fund it.
So where is the money going to come from? You’re talking about seeing this as a type of grant, but the amount of money available for grants and XPrize type organizations is finite and heavily competed for. How are you going to convince people that this is a better way of making scientific progress than the countless other options available?
The main point of the post is floating the idea. Discussing the idea helps different people to estimate it’s value. If people find the idea worthwhile it can spread and maybe someone who does have the kind of money for it decides to fund it.