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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...