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Researchers are concerned with the quality of figures, tightness of sentences, and word counts when trying to express their positive contributions to the knowledge base of science. This has largely become the responsibility of science; researchers disseminate their best and proudest results. Cool, thanks guys, you are awesome. But what about the process! I don't give a shit about your product. Science is process driven. Scientists are artists. They work in a limited design space of experimental tools, statistical tools, and computational simulations; they drive thier experimental process off of assumptions and intuition; science can never be proven to be right; stop trying to do that. What science can do is stop making shit up, they will do science, they will record the process better, they will not put the cart before the horse.  The Venn diagram in Fig xx. illustrates each scientific product. New collaboration models are being overlain on top existing software architectures. Github and collaborative Latex (e.g. ShareTex, Bibtex) editors are being merged to cite data and code in scientific publications. Cooperative efforts are stream lining the scientific process to get from vetted scientific research to the final publication. The problem with the current paradigm of science is that it is still steeped in tradition that is inhibiting its ability to its best. Most scientific progress is being evaluated under a traditional accounting model; progress is vetted by small groups of peers that are domain experts in a subject area; this proliferates as strong bias from traditional scientific practices. Science needs a new scientific model for research  Alum