The reason that I want to expand to the scientific research is because it is my expertise, and as far as I know, most of them don't have an idea on crypto-currency. In order for success, I think we need new supporters from other areas besides the community in bitcointalk.
To answer your question why this forum provides service to scientific researchers, you may see we have Scientific News, Journals, etc for researchers who don't have enough time to look at every journal to get some information on the most important discoveries, and also for those who want to submit their papers to get some discussion, and to those who have questions to get help on their specific research, any post some career info for those who want to find a job, that is my aim.
As I mentioned in the statement, some people may think it is not a good idea, but I think time will tell whether it is true or not (a few years ago when my friend released a forum on another topic, I also thought it was not smart, but it turned out that I was wrong).
The intention of this project is that as we have more users, we will recommend users to use FLEX for some bounty after providing help, etc., and slowly they will realize it is a good way to for bounty payment.
As I mentioned earlier, this current project is to accommodate some niche market as I have seen plenty of opportunity there, and I believe it is a practical purpose for this coin. It may be a slow process in the crypto-currency world, but I will work hard to arrive the aim eventually.
With regards to the "real crypto project" (I think I understand what you mean, but I don't agree with you that only those are real projects), if you are talking about anonymous transaction, it is not difficult for us to implement, but we are not sure about the aim for the anonymity. For other big projects such as blockchain 2.0, decentralized markets, etc., we may implement in the future when the technology is more mature, but it is not determined. We don't want to make a big announcement and later found out that we are unable to deliver it.