I never understood this whole "decentralization in medicine". First off, why only in medicine? What's wrong with the rest sciences?
Yeah, I don't get it either. But they entered a lot of other fields too, basically anything they thought was a "hot topic" they created a token for. I saw a bunch in energy field, one was even claiming to "ease" selling oil internationally lol.
Second, why should scientific work or public info regarding medicine be accessible in such inefficient manner? What's wrong with current technology?
Exactly. When we want to introduce an alternative, that should be a better one and have some advantages over the existing system. For example in bitcoin whitepaper these advantages are explained in the first page.
The funny thing is, blockchain is the least efficient form of database so the advantages have to be big enough to justify using it but they don't even exist when they mix it in fields like medicine!
The description of
this paper, for example, smells fishy, doesn't it? (Haven't read it though, nor am I related to medicine)
Haha. That's just academia. The students saw a hot topic and thought about taking advantage to start a project, possibly a dissertation and eventually write an article to have that in their résumé. I know because we used to do the same thing although in our field you have to do solid work not some theoretical nonsense without actual work.
For example I spent months working on samples in the lab before I wrote my article on three-dimensional metallography, which was a hot topic those days.