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https://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Benjamin-Franklin-Lightning-Experiment-17521.jpg15361076Citizen science is nothing new. What do Benjamin Franklin (see picture obove), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Francis Bacon have in common? All were amateur scientists. Franklin invented the lightning rod, Goethe discovered the incisive bone and was moderately successful as an art theorist and Bacon can be considered as nothing less than the father…