nt is most commonly known as the Rosenhan Experiment or the Thud Experiment with the aim of challenging the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnosis. There were a total of eight subjects who attempted to gain admittance into the psychiatric ward of a hospital. The participants called the hospital for diagnosis appointments and worked together to find a way to explain their condition in a way to ensure each of the 8 participants gained admittance into the hospital. They claimed they were hearing voices, an existential symptom that arises due to a meaningless life; all of the subjects were admitted as there was no mention of existential psychosis in literature. Through this, they were able to use shared knowledge as information was contributed by a group of people. After entering the ward, they stopped showing pseudo symptoms and acted as ordinary people. Even while in the psychiatric ward, the participants collaborated in order to maintain consistency between their ‘conditions.’ Each participant began to take notes about their lives in the ward. They originally took notes secretly due to their fear of the warden, but after realizing that nobody cared, they began to do this publicly, allowing public communication and collaboration. To complete the study, they continuously questioned the staff about ideas such as them being discharged to test their obdurate behavior towards the participants. The psychiatrists were not able to reliably distinguish normal people from those with an illness. A diagnostic method that makes any such errors cannot be considered valid or reliable. Collaboration was used greatly in this study as all eight participants worked together throughout the experiment. Without collaboration, this experiment would not have been completed accurately and properly as each and every step requires meticulous thinking. Also, the group was needed to gain proper admittance into the psychiatric ward for this rare situation. The production of knowledge in this study in the human sciences was a collaborative task and not solely the product of an individual.

The natural sciences is another area of knowledge in which production of knowledge can be seen as a collaborative task. The natural sciences is a branch of science that relates directly to the physical world including subjects such as physics, biology, chemistry, geology, and more. Research studies that show collaboration with production of knowledge are also conducted in this field. A biological study was conducted at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine about colorectal cancer. Dr. Subroto B. Chatterjee worked with colleagues to identify a protein, beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase-V, involved in the proliferation, rapid increase, of cells and development of new blood vessels could serve as biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer. The protein increased greatly in colorectal cancer tumor cells in comparison to normal human tissue. For further collaboration, he assigned groups of researchers to the same area of study to have multiple trials and perspectives on results. After observation of growth and an increase in activity, Dr. Chatterjee and other sci