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Will Funders Have The Patience to Reform Science?
Discussions about metascience are frequently not about science, but about money. From reforming grantmaking regimes to new frameworks for evaluating the…
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Tim Hwang
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Funding Against the Tide
The last edition of Macroscience focused on the curious fact that many scientists and industry insiders considered mRNA vaccines, ex ante, to be a dead…
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Tim Hwang
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The Frontier of Scientific Plausibility
As part of my fellowship at IFP, I’ve been embarking on a longer-term research project that seeks to produce a retrospective of the development and…
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Tim Hwang
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It’s So Over. Now What?
What is the metascience community to make of the delirious rise and apparent fall of LK-99? If LK-99 turns out in the end – as it appears as of the time…
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Tim Hwang
Does a Better Science Need the State?
At Macroscience, I’ve argued frequently for a vision of improving science that imagines a revitalized role for government. I believe we need courageous…
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Tim Hwang
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The Political Fragility of Metascience
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…
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Antitrust in the Marketplace of Ideas
Science is a dynamic system. Ideas come and go. Scientific and technological institutions rise and fall. Fields of research collaborate, compete, and…
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Tim Hwang
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Macroscience
Macroscience
A newsletter about macroscientific theory, policy, and strategy
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