On 2 July, a science initiative was born in a lecture hall in London. The Metascience Alliance is a coalition of more than 25 funders, academic groups, companies and other institutions that pursue ...

Around the world, long-standing scientific institutions are turning their keen and penetrating gaze inward. With society facing problems such as climate change that urgently require scientific ...

As scientists, we are supposed to be objective and disinterested, careful sifters of evidence. The reality is messier. Our training can give us only so much protection from natural tendencies to see ...

On February 9, AEI’s M. Anthony Mills and James Pethokoukis hosted George Mason University’s Tyler Cowen and the Institute for Progress’s Heidi Williams to discuss innovation, progress, and scientific ...

When America endeavors to tackle an ambitious project, we speak in terms of moonshots or a “Manhattan Project for X.” The assumption is that vast government resources, directed toward some objective, ...

Metascience 2023 Conference, at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC, will take place May 9-10, 2023 as a global in-person gathering to connect the study of science across ...

John Ioannidis, the leader of the metascience discipline that researches the causes of the scientific irreproducibility crisis, recently has been the subject of a series of attacks from one Jonathan ...

Ambika Grover ‘27, a Crimson Editorial Editor, is a joint concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Leverett House and a student researcher in the Patel Lab. Recent cases of ...

The reproducibility crisis may have caused a tsunami of doubt across peers, politicians and the public, but has also made way for the growth of metascience. Metascience is defined as the “inquiry into ...

The movie Troy is an underappreciated film. There are several reasons for this (not least of which is its liberal use of staring dramatically into the distance), but the one I’d like to focus on is ...

SSHRC is pleased to announce that it is partnering with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the UK Research and Innovation to support the Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowships. As part of this ...