Folk science is the abbreviation of folk scientist, which only appeared at the beginning of this century. There were folk themes before, for example, a large number of people claimed to prove Goldbach's conjecture. However, there was no such title at that time, and the dissemination of information was not as convenient as it is now. Many people don't know the existence of this group. After the rise of the Internet, we can see that some people often publish their scientific theories online. These people are often folk subjects, such as the familiar Guo Yingsen, which is a typical folk subject.

People's research objects have not received special academic training, and the methods they use to make scientific discoveries are often inherently problematic, so they cannot be accepted by the scientific community. The overall cultural level of this group is relatively low, and many people who claim to have proved Goldbach's conjecture often have only junior high school education. Guo Yingsen, who thinks he can create many Nobel Prizes, graduated from junior high school.

It is not important to judge whether a person is a folk subject. The key is to see what method he uses and whether it can be accepted by the scientific community. In the past, many people often talked about Einstein, saying that Einstein was not a scientist when he gave the special theory of relativity, but a clerk in the Federal Patent Office. After all, Einstein was a professionally trained person. He published his research results in the form of papers for scientific evaluation and analysis. This is the only way for scientific discoveries to be recognized.

There is a paleontologist named Zheng Xiaoting in China. His education only dropped out of junior high school, which did not prevent him from embarking on the only way of academic research. He cooperated with other scholars and published many research papers in top journals such as Nature, and his research results were accepted by his peers. He was also hired as a professor at Linyi University. If someone can follow Zheng Xiaoting's path, even if the research results can't be published in Nature magazine, if they are sent to other professional academic journals, they are expected to be accepted by the academic community.

A few decades ago, there were few educational resources in China, but after all, they needed to be studied, so some scientists with low academic qualifications appeared. Many doctoral supervisors of the older generation in China have no postgraduate education, and even Hua is a mathematician with only a junior high school diploma. There is a similar phenomenon abroad. Faraday is an outstanding physicist, but he has not received a few years of school education. Fortunately, he became the assistant of the great scientist David, and the cooperation with David helped him learn the scientific method and integrate into the scientific community.

Today, with the gradual development and perfection of education, it is impossible for a person who has not attended school for several years to take Faraday's road again. It is not a bad thing to have the ambition to become a scientist. Ambition alone is not enough. You must have solid basic knowledge and abide by academic rules.