Conclusion

The very authority of science rests upon its claim to disclose the facts of what is really there (Ingold 2015). As we have seen there is not just one truth but many. Human created problems need solutions where we are  thinking and acting differently so we are not perpetuating 'bad' patterns.

Citizen science provides an ideal opportunity to promote research integrity and ethics and to work towards the realisation of the SDGs. Citizen scientists can be beneficial to local communities, government, researchers, policy makers and planners who need large quantities of data in a short period of time to use in decision making about water resources management. For citizen science data to be useful, however, it must be trusted as a valid and reliable source of data. A large body of literature suggests that when a study is well designed and implemented, the quality of citizen-collected data is in fact comparable to that collected by professional scientists (Thornton and Leahy 2012, Goldin et al. 2021)

As the feminist philosophers (Fraser 2009, Marion Young 1990 and Bozalek et al. 2017) claim, there needs to be a constant vigilance around issues of exclusion and inclusion and dynamics of power.