Few days back they mailed me twice and asked my application to be their paid reviewer. Did anyone get their email?
I am Sean Hays, President of SciPinion. I'm happy to tell you about SciPinion and our mission.
We have an active community of tens of thousands of the world's experts, spanning hundreds of niche scientific subject matter areas and we work with governments, industry and academia alike to shed light on some of the most complex and controversial science questions our society faces today while maintaining psychological safety for our experts and prioritizing merit at all times.
I am a scientist and have worked as a consultant since 1995 in the environmental health risk field. My cofounder, Chris Kirman, and I started SciPinion because we got tired of how science wasn’t getting the fair attention it deserves. In particular we became appalled by how experts were being attacked when they shared their opinions in public discourse. In fact, I too was attacked by an advocacy group when I served on an EPA science advisory panel. It made me never want to speak up or serve on an important government panel ever again. We realized this was wrong and needed to be fixed. Furthermore, we wanted more experts to share their opinions, not less. As a result, we created SciPinion to engage the broader scientific community, to give experts safety for speaking their opinions, to be a voice for the scientific community and ultimately to help decisions makers (governments, companies, the broader public) make better decisions.
We’ve already won the endorsement of the US government (https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2022-07/_epaoig_20220720-22-E-0053.pdf) and we hope to achieve this with all governments around the world. If you receive an invitation to join SciPinion, I hope you will consider joining. We never ask for any money, we don’t sell user data and we have paid our experts millions of dollars to date.
Kindest regards, Sean
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