macroscience.org

If you’re not already familiar (and, frankly, are the kind of person who is weird enough to be subscribed to Macroscience), I highly recommend that you immediately stop what you’re doing and visit the Wikipedia page for “long-term experiment”. Then, check out Sam Arbesman’s...

To the extent that the burgeoning field of metascience has a policy agenda, it is that science should be governed by rigorous science. We should test scientific practices using the scientific method. In large part, this policy agenda has included encouraging the adoption of methods like the randomized control trial (RCT) as the...