[Centurion2000]

Actually this is a good idea ... scientists just need to budget 1500.00 into their grant budgeting and then they can get some awesome peer review and feedback.

Of course posting it on the internet means that the Chinese and Russians get a crack at any really promising leads in technology as well.

[FairOpinion]

"Of course posting it on the internet means that the Chinese and Russians get a crack at any really promising leads in technology as well."

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Good point -- but all scientific journals where academicians publish papers are unclassified, available to anyone who can shell out the (rather high) price of subscription.

[TopQuark]

scientists just need to budget 1500.00 into their grant budgeting

And that money comes... from where exactly? How much funding do you think is out there in social sciences? And, even in hard sciences, with say 100,000 scientists publishing 250,000 articles -- that's $375M!

SO much for "just budgeting."