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.
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.