Folk Science
by @observing_hades
What if your rare medical problem has already been solved — not in a journal, but in an obscure Reddit thread buried at the bottom of the Internet, written by someone who simply figured it out?
Folk Science is an expedition into the vast, unindexed archive of lived experience: forum posts, comment sections, and personal blogs where people document what actually worked. It asks how we might surface this distributed knowledge and treat it with the seriousness it deserves.
Keywords
- Medicine
- Crowdsourcing
- Information retrieval
- Patient knowledge
- Self-experimentation
- N=1 experiments
- First-person science
- Personal science methodology
- Integrating soft evidence
- Citizen science
- Internet archives
- Soft evidence synthesis
Character
Exploratory
Amount granted
$2,000
Year
2025
Sourcing channel
Scouted