To what extent does scientific knowledge rely on the collaboration of knowers and shared

knowledge? Pages 555 to 571

Collaboration within the scientific community is necessary for the progression of scientific knowledge
and the development relies on the sharing of ideas, plans and techniques with other scientific
experts. Most of the scientific research available is collaborative, meaning that there is more than
two people working together, even though there are scientists who prefer to work alone when it
comes to laboratory investigations. This is because even if the scientists prefer to work by themselves
in their own closed spaces, they still have the slightest of collaboration for example when attending
conferences with other scientists or being in contact with people who have similar ideas or interest in
that particular area of knowledge performed by an individual scientist. Even talking over a mobile
device about the plans the scientist has or simply the evaluation of thoughts and sharing knowledge
may be seen as collaboration. Collaboration is needed to have valid evidence and to build scientific
knowledge necessary to help our planet and to find explanations for certain problems by receiving
critical feedback. This is because this kind of feedback helps change the scientific research for the
better and come to conclusions on how to perfect the certain research.

Collaboration is very helpful to obtain valid scientific research, especially due to the fact that the
scientific community is able to interpret necessary data and provide support in the form of
intellectuality, finance or by catching out fraud and inadvertent bias by evaluating the single work of
a scientist or group of scientists working in a joined force. The specialisation of scientists or
interested personas in particular fields within the scientific community may be identified as sub-
communities, which makes it simpler to access scientific collaboration or scientific knowledge from
the people interested in a specialised field within the science department. Collaboration and the
sharing of scientific knowledge is necessary at all levels of the scientific research to be able to hold
valid critical feedback and learn from the ideas of others and develop from these learning outcomes.