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, ...

“For all its cruelties, civilization is precious, an experiment worth continuing. It is also precarious: as we climbed the ladder of progress, we kicked out the rungs below. There is no going back ...

Is science reform stunted by lack of theory? Source: Photo by Mwabonje from Pexels The new sociology manuscript on the current scientific reform movement ends with a damning sentence: “Metascience has ...

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 ...