You are underestimating the amount of domain knowledge needed for this.
Try contributing to open source software which is currently used for research, you'll realize the issue.
The domain knowledge being how academia works? My point is not to perfectly copy how academia works but to create a new platform that will allow people outside of academia to participate in the scientific process.
Like maybe your skill is that you can fix up poorly written wording. This platform will allow you to specialize in one thing.
