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 ...

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 ...

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 UK government’s metascience unit, launched last year, released its first results on June 30. The findings include a successful trial of so-called distributed peer review. Distributed peer review ...

In 2005, John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, opened a can of worms. In a paper published in PLOS Medicine, he argued that most published scholarly literature is false (DOI: ...

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 ...

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 ...