Many areas of science currently appear to have reproducibility problems with published research (some call it a crisis). Do you think that poor reproducibility of recent (approx. the last 30 years) scientific work has been a significant contributor to the current stagnation?
On the margin, do you think that funding is better spent on improving reproducibility (or more generally, the areas covered by Metascience) or on pursuing promising scientific research directly?
I don’t have strong opinions on the reproducibility issues. My guess is that if it has contributed to stagnation it’s been more of a symptom than a cause.
As for where to spend funding, I also don’t have a strong answer. My feeling is that reproducibility isn’t really stopping anything, it’s a tax/friction/overhead at worst? So I would tend to favor a promising science project over a reproducibility project. On the other hand, metascience feels important, and more neglected than science itself.
Many areas of science currently appear to have reproducibility problems with published research (some call it a crisis). Do you think that poor reproducibility of recent (approx. the last 30 years) scientific work has been a significant contributor to the current stagnation?
On the margin, do you think that funding is better spent on improving reproducibility (or more generally, the areas covered by Metascience) or on pursuing promising scientific research directly?
I don’t have strong opinions on the reproducibility issues. My guess is that if it has contributed to stagnation it’s been more of a symptom than a cause.
As for where to spend funding, I also don’t have a strong answer. My feeling is that reproducibility isn’t really stopping anything, it’s a tax/friction/overhead at worst? So I would tend to favor a promising science project over a reproducibility project. On the other hand, metascience feels important, and more neglected than science itself.