Jack:
Einstein wouldn't be considered a scientist by modern criteria?
That's certainly a hyperbole, but not one without a good point. For start, Einstein's early 20th century breakthrough into the milieu of elite scientists was performed in a way that would likely be impossible these days. Another significant observation is that while peer review has become something like a sacred mantra in determining what qualifies as "science" nowadays, Einstein's attempt to publish a paper on gravitational waves in Physical Review in 1936 "may have been his only genuine encounter with anonymous peer review."
(As you can read in the linked article, this episode resulted in a controversy in which Einstein was wrong, and the author uses this fact as a point in favor of the contemporary peer review system. However, regardless of this particular incident, the fact that Einstein and his contemporaries and predecessors did without this institution should throw some cold water on the modern common practice of using peer review as the gold standard for what constitutes valid science.)
Good stuff. Can you expand on:
For start, Einstein's early 20th century breakthrough into the milieu of elite scientists was performed in a way that would likely be impossible these days.
Please have a look at this Youtube user account. I immediately thought of this site upon watching a couple of his clips. I am told we have tried here to publish some stuff in audiovisual fomat, but it didn't quite work out. Maybe we should contact this guy, perhaps we could profit from each other's work and experience? I am fairly hopeful that he could use some of the material here, and we could use some of his talent with the medium.
This video, for instance, looks like it was taken right out of this very blog